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Object Details
- Artist
- John R. Grabach, born Newark, NJ 1886-died 1981
- Luce Center Label
- John Grabach completed this portrait of his wife, Anna, shortly before her death. While the visible brushstrokes and bright colors are characteristic of Grabach's impressionist works, the enlarged bed and floating parasol create a distorted perspective. During World War I, Grabach worked in New York creating demographic and climatic maps of Europe for the federal government. As he commuted into the city every day, his fascination with the urban experience grew, and Grabach gradually turned from impressionistic landscapes and portraits, like Morning, toward the social realism seen in his Depression-era painting The Fifth Year (see Luce object 1979.119.1).
- Luce Object Quote
- "I wish my art to be colorful and effective, to interpret life as it throbs and surges about me with all its movement and to convey its complexity both visual and psychic." The artist, quoted in John R. Grabach: Century Man, 2006
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- ca. 1917
- Object number
- 1979.119.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 1/8 x 42 1/4 in. (91.6 x 107.3 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 29A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure female\head
- State of being\other\sleep
- Architecture Interior\domestic\bedroom
- Object\furniture\bed
- Record ID
- saam_1979.119.2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7094e8f6e-49c9-437d-88c5-0f245f3a9a6d
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