Fourth of July Still Life

1975

Audrey Flack

Associated Names
Audrey Flack

Artist, American, American, 1931 - 2024

Styria Studio

Printer

Lorillard, A Division of Loews Theatres, Inc.

Publisher

The image features a large golden trumpet positioned diagonally across the foreground, intertwined with shiny silver bead garlands. Beside it, a figurine of a colonial soldier in a red coat stands front and center, with a bald eagle figurine to its left. The backdrop showcases a fabric of the American flag, contributing rich hues of red, white, and blue to the overall color palette, while touches of gold, brown, and metallic silver add depth and contrast. In the center and around, there are other smaller objects like stacked red, white, and blue crepe paper, red spheres, and an image of George Washington partially visible on the right. The composition is densely packed, and most objects are clustered around the bottom and center of the image.
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery E406

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Color photoscreenprint, printed in sixteen colors and stenciled gloss, with collage of die-cut gold aluminized paper on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Lorillard Tobacco Company)

  • Dimensions

    image: 91.76 × 91.76 cm (36 1/8 × 36 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.2587

  • Portfolio Title

    Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lorillard Company, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • Artists Celebrate the Bicentennial, United States Information Agency (Tour of Europe), 1976-1977

Bibliography

1975

  • Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence. New York: Lorillard Company, 1975, pp. 10-11.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 11/125; lower right in graphite: Audrey Flack '75

Markings

embossed lower right: Styria Studio

Wikidata ID

Q77011801

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