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Cecily Brown

British, born 1969

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A person with peach-colored skin sits on a swing, holding onto the ropes, in a forest setting in this loosely painted horizontal work. Diagonal slashes of brown suggest tree trunks with branches creating a shallow X across the picture. The swing hangs from the two topmost trunks, just to our left of center. Beyond the trees, the upper left quadrant is painted with broad strokes of pale blue; the upper right with cool, mint green. In the lower left a tree trunk lies along a grassy ground with plants growing around it, painted with dashes of vivid green and red. The lower right has some strokes of terracotta orange. An area to our right of the person and swing is painted with smears of brown, peach, red, gray, and white, and is difficult to make out.
Cecily Brown, Girl on a Swing, 2004, oil on linen, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2015.62.1

Girl on a Swing

Cecily Brown · 2004 · oil on linen ·  Accession ID  2015.62.1