Exterior view of storefront with green lit up store sign reading "Bobby's Hobby Shop" on left window and "Southwest Clock Camera Clinic" painted in orange on the left window.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Context
In Two O’Clock Sunday Afternoon, a work made towards the end of her career, the influence of the urban realist school of painting can still be seen in the deep vibrant greens of the store front and signage in its windows. While the work maintains a strong adherence to representational values the loose and expressive qualities of the brushstrokes give room for Barton to express a sense of subjectivity in the experience of her milieu. Similarly to her Urban Realist educators Barton infuses the everyday with a sense of subjectivity and bold strokes of color which draw the eye inwards towards the store front’s alcove with the contrasting uses of electric green and reds. Moreover, the vantage point is situated at a skewed angle where we can clearly feel the presence of the artist’s body in the space that she is depicting. Barton would continue to live and paint in Chicago for the rest of her life.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.15-17
Source or Donor
Arthur D. James
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Arthur D. James
