Gemini

Painting

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Gemini

Entry/Object ID

2008.76

Description

Colorful, tubular shapes overlapping and intertwined (Diptych).

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Context

This painting is one half of a two painting series (both with the same title) that was originally commissioned to be hung on the wall in two alcoves of the patron’s home. In the artist’s own words, “the title suggests a duality, of course, but also an ambiguous tension between the two panels, resisting any effort to imagine a satisfying link between them while inviting it nonetheless. It’s a metaphor of art itself in offering an unattainable make-believe reality.”

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Mary and John Gedo

Made/Created

Artist

Conger, William

Date made

1974

Place

City

Chicago

State/Province

Illinois

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZH-emehxA&ob=av2e United States North America Chicago

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

verso center

Transcription

W. Conger Gemini 1974

Material/Technique

oil paint

Type

Inscription

Location

Verso left

Transcription

W. Conger

Material/Technique

oil paint

Type

Inscription

Location

verso right

Transcription

Right 1

Material/Technique

oil paint

Type

Inscription

Location

Transcription

DePaul Label

Material/Technique

Label

Type

Inscription

Location

recto bl

Transcription

W. Conger

Material/Technique

in paintin

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Painting

Class

PAINTINGS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

canvas

Width

42-1/4 in

Length

66-1/4 in

Dimension Description

frame

Width

43 in

Length

67 in

Exhibitions

William Conger: Paintings 1958 -2008

Re:Chicago

Interpretative Labels

Label

Gemini (Dyptich) Conger, William 1974 colorful, tubular shapes overlapping.

Label

Gemini Conger, William 1974 colorful, tubular shapes overlapping (Diptych).