Garden of Exhausted Fireworks

Painting

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2012.193

Description

Large expanse of blue beneath pink, yellow, and orange broken up by umbrella shaped objects and swirling lines in red and green, all done in bright, saturated colors and rough technique

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Samuel and Blanche Koffler

Made/Created

Artist

Pope, Kerig

Date made

1966

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

"John L. Hunt 1528 North Lasalle Chicago 10"

Notes

Inscription Type: Printed in blue ink along T of frame verso

Location

made in Chicago/Kerig Pope/Garden of Exhausted Fireworks 1966"

Transcription

"National Collection of Fine Arts 37, Smithsonian Institution, 9 and G streets, washington DC

Notes

Inscription Type: rectangular yellow sticker in TL of frame verso

Location

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Koffler/Chicago"

Transcription

"Biennial of Sao Paulo 37/Kerig Pope/Garden of Exhausted Fireworks/24.75x26.75/Oil on canvas/NFS

Notes

Inscription Type: brown rectangular sticker in TL of frame verso

Location

National collection of fine arts Smithsonian Institution Washington DC 20560/Do not touch or repair until instructions are received

Transcription

"Report damage to object, picture, or frame immediately by telegraph and request instructions from International Art Program

Notes

Inscription Type: blue and white rectangular sticker in BL of frame verso

Transcription

"Do not hang in direct sunlight or over heating vent"

Notes

Inscription Type: blue sticker in BR of frame verso

Transcription

graphite TR of frame verso

Notes

Inscription Type: "garden of exhausted fireworks"

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

PAINTINGS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

canvas

Width

26-3/4 in

Length

24-3/4 in

Dimension Description

frame

Width

33 in

Depth

1-3/4 in

Length

31 in