Confused Paradise

1996

Juan Sánchez

Associated Names
Juan Sánchez

Artist, American, born 1954

Edwin Arocho

Printer, born 1958

Jim "BJ" Hughes

Printer, American

Robert Franklin

Printer, American, born 1930

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Publisher

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G29

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color offset lithograph and screenprint on two sheets of wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 105.2 × 75.7 cm (41 7/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
    sheet (.a, irreg.): 54.5 × 75.7 cm (21 7/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
    sheet (.b): 50.7 × 75.7 cm (19 15/16 × 29 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.22.46.a-b

  • Copyright

    © Juan Sánchez, courtesy of HM&C and Guariken Arts Inc.

More About this Artwork

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below. Small in scale, the buffalo form a line that extends away from us at a diagonal into the distance to our right. Sunlight creates a bright reflection on the stream where the frontmost buffalo crosses, but the other animals are nearly backlit in the raking light. Trees, with branches whipping in the wind, rise along the left side of the painting, and the mountainous landscape to our right is lost in darkness under heavy clouds. The clouds above lighten from navy blue in the lower right corner of the sky to slate blue and white at the center of the painting. Small patches of blue sky are visible between a few breaks in the clouds, and sunlight falls on a cliff-like mountain face in the distance beyond the trees to our left. Another bank of parchment-colored clouds in the upper left corner, closer to us, contrasts with the glimmering light highlighting some of the clouds nearby.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; gifted to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

a) "26/76 Top" verso, left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
b) "Juan Sanchez 96" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "Confused Paradise" lower center margin, graphite, artist's hand. "28/76" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

Markings

b) Brandywine chop, lower left margin.

Watermarks

Somerset, each sheet

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