Name/Title
Clouds Over A PlanetoidEntry/Object ID
5196Description
Somewhat aerial view of a planet. Planet is on lower section of the image and is made up of colorful, abstract, curving human forms. The sky is light blue with white clouds at the very top and a few colorful planets scattered throughout.Artwork Details
Medium
Oil collage on canvasContext
The 1960’s marked the last decade of Julia Thecla’s artistic career and somewhat of a restoration of her place in Chicago’s art world. Thecla thrived in the artistic community of Chicago in the 1930’s and 40’s, but fell to the margins in the 1950’s. She is considered a surrealist painter or a part of the “magic realism” group along with Gertrude Abercrombie and Ivan Albright. While her early work shows more human and animal figures, her later works such as this one, were focused on space. These space themed paintings are thought to have been either a reflection of America’s obsession with the “race for space” at the time, or an escape route for Thecla out of this dimension and into another.Acquisition
Notes
Collection of DePaul University, gift of Helen T. FindlayEthnography
Notes
America
United States
North America
Chicago
North America, United StatesLexicon
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
PaintingClass
PAINTINGSDimensions
Dimension Description
ImageWidth
26-1/4 inLength
35-3/4 inDimension Description
frameWidth
27-1/4 inDepth
1-1/2 inLength
37-1/4 inDimension Description
FrameDimension Notes
Size: 36 x 26Exhibition
Julia Thecla: Undiscovered WorldsInterpretative Labels
Label
Clouds Over A Planetoid
Thecla, Julia
1962