In the Garden

Name/Title

In the Garden

Entry/Object ID

W09.001.0001

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Thomson Reuters (Scientific), Inc., Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 2009 Credit Line: Donated by Thomson Reuters (Scientific), Inc. Means of Accession: Donation Source: Dr. Eugene Garfield

Made/Created

Artist

Jennifer Bartlett

Date made

1980

Place

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Dimensions

Height

116 in

Width

390 in

Height

294.64 cm

Width

990.6 cm

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

Jennifer Bartlett spent the winter of 1979-80 making hundreds of drawings of the overgrown garden, cypress trees and empty pool at a borrowed villa in Nice. She produced over 200 studies of the same scene in a variety of styles and media from different angles and at different times of day. Here we see that garden in Bartlett’s signature large scale multi-paneled grid format which allowed her to explore the play between light and shadow, abstraction and representation. Bartlett’s work is found in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Tate Modern and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.