Untitled

Summer 1979

Arnold Kramer

Associated Names
Arnold Kramer

Artist, American, 1944 - 2017

The image shows a man standing with his back to the viewer, displaying his full body from the rear. He is barefoot and positioned with one foot slightly crossed over the other, leaning with his right arm on a post. The man appears bald from the back, with no visible facial features due to his position. He is wearing only a pair of bright yellow shorts trimmed in white. Slung around the post is a white fabric item resembling a small towel or bag. The background features a large mural painted on a wall that depicts an urban street scene with mountains in the distance and a number of cars parked alongside, including a historical car, a white car of a more modern style, palm trees, and other buildings.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Arnold Kramer, Washington, DC; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC), 1979; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Recent Acquisitions: Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 1 – May 4, 1980

1981

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 19 – November 15, 1981; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (travelled through May 1983, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)

2012

  • The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 9 – October 14, 2012

Bibliography

1981

  • Nygren, Edward J. Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery. Exh. cat. Washington D.C., 1981: 176-177, cat. 75.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, bottom right below image in black ink: Arnold Kramer 1979; on verso, bottom left: Arnold Kramer 1979; across bottom: negative 79-LA246 printed October 1979 on Ektacolor 74 RC; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in faded black ink: 1979.92

Wikidata ID

Q64144969

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