Object Details
- Artist
- Jon Serl, born Olean, NY 1894-died Lake Elsinore, CA 1993
- Gallery Label
- Jon Serl’s paintings magnificently fuse the vivid life of his peripatetic, vaudeville upbringing with mature musings on survival, human relations, gender identity, morality, and his own artistic life in the company of chickens and chihuahuas. When Serl began painting in earnest in the late 1940s, he favored landscapes. He soon turned to portrayals of human interaction marked by saturated color and liquid-limbed, dream-like figures.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
- Copyright
- © 2000, Randall Morris
- 1967
- Object number
- 1998.84.32
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 72 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (183.9 x 54.0 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st Floor, West Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure male\full length
- Performing arts\music\banjo
- Record ID
- saam_1998.84.32
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk75facbab8-1e25-4e02-976e-a5935464afb1
