Red Ribbon

Name/Title

Red Ribbon

Entry/Object ID

71.52

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Context

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Barish

Made/Created

Artist

Robert Sarsony

Date made

n.d.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame Size

Height

19-1/2 in

Width

23-1/2 in

Dimension Description

Image Size

Height

12 in

Width

16 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Sarsony often paints small images copied from cards found in cigarette packages and cereal boxes between 1875 and the 1940s. In doing so he follows in the steps of the nineteenth-century trompe l’oeil artists who depicted cards that looked as though they were tucked under the edges of their paintings’ frames.