丁乙 “十示2006-14”丙烯 成品布 200cmx140cm 2006 2009-10-09 14:42:59 来源:99艺术网专稿 编译:张鸿宾 点击:
阿蒙-卡特博物馆宣布其获得了艺术家查尔斯·希勒于1940年创作的美国油画:天空和大地的交谈,这幅著名的、标志性油画的获得增强了博物馆在重要方面的收藏。

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  Landmark Sheeler Painting Acquired by Amon Carter Museum

 

  FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has acquired a major American painting by the artist Charles Sheeler: Conversation—Sky and Earth, painted in 1940.

 

  “This superb example of Sheeler’s work is a vital addition to our holdings of this important and versatile artist, who until now has been represented in our collection by one drawing, five prints, and six photographs,” says Dr. Ron Tyler, director. Sheeler, long recognized as a founder of American modernism, was inspired and influenced by the country’s changing industrialism in the first half of the 20th century, nowhere more notably than in the Carter’s new acquisition. With its crisp rendering and cropping and its absence of any allusion to movement, the painting juxtaposes transmission towers and wires against the backdrop of the Hoover Dam, which had been completed only four years before and was both the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant and tallest concrete structure. A crystalline sky looms over two-thirds of the painting.

 

  “The acquisition of this famous landmark painting strengthens the museum’s collection in important ways,” says Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture.

 


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