Drawing from Janet, Poor Janet Series

Name/Title

Drawing from Janet, Poor Janet Series

Entry/Object ID

81.26

Artwork Details

Medium

drawing on paper

Context

Credit Line: Gift of the artist

Made/Created

Artist

Shirley Aley Campbell

Date made

1980

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame Size

Height

28-1/2 in

Width

35-1/2 in

Dimension Description

Image Size

Height

22 in

Width

30 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

This series is a portrait done in acrylic, pencil and photography of Janet Guthrie. The finished portrait was photographed and Xeroxed time and again, zooming in on the central figure, an object here or there, using what ever interested her the most to carry into the next phase of her work. But totally dissecting the original work, adding and subtracting ideas, reducing it down to a simpler shape eventually to brown prints and blueprints, Campbell reconstructs a whole new work from the old one, so that the original portrait becomes only a working drawing.