Provenance

Robert Miller

Miller, Robert Mr. and Mrs.

American, 1939 - 2011

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Louise Bourgeois, Spider, 1996, cast 1997, bronze with silver nitrate patina, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1997.136.1

Spider

Louise Bourgeois · 1996, cast 1997 · bronze with silver nitrate patina ·  Accession ID  1997.136.1

Geometric shapes and mostly flat areas of color suggest an abstracted sunflower in a vase against a background made of vibrant bands of color in this vertical painting. A spring-green oval shape takes up the middle of the lower half of this composition. Cut straight cross the top and bottom, it recalls a wide-mouthed vase. The head of the stylized flower seems to rest propped over or on the top edge of the vase. A pine-green circle is outlined with celery green, and then surrounded by a larger, yellow disk to represent the head and petals of the flower. The yellow lightens from canary to goldenrod around the green disk within. Then, the yellow disk is outlined with a darker, honey color. The head of the flower is surrounded by a pale pink disk. A stylized green stem curves from the blossom into the vase on our left. Bands and blocks of color make up the background in flat areas of crimson red, black, eggplant purple, pumpkin orange, white, and shades of blue and green.
Edward Steichen, Le Tournesol (The Sunflower), c. 1920, tempera and oil on canvas, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1999.43.1

Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)

Edward Steichen · c. 1920 · tempera and oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1999.43.1