Girl on a Swing

2004

Cecily Brown

Artist, British, born 1969

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.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York; purchased 7 May 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often and with Whom, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

2015

  • "Cecily Brown, Girl on a Swing" National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 53 (Fall 2015):

Wikidata ID

Q63125234


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