Name/Title
PaintingEntry/Object ID
2015.41.5Description
Framed oil painting of a person with nondescript features sitting in a hair, a blue cloth wrapped around their hips and upper thighs, one arm resting on the knee and the other on a table next to them. They are indeterminately female. The painting is done in a wash of colors, contrasting warm and cold, and with vague contour lines on the legs, hands, chest, and face. Signed in the bottom right, "Carlson 70."
On the back is a painting of abstract shapes in black, yellow, and white. An orange spot covers a canvas patch. Painted words across it read, "[ ]61 June," "Carlson," and "Carlson 3-56." Inscribed on the right side of the stretcher, "Carlson" again.Type of Painting
EaselContext
Stuart Allen Carlson (1938-1980) was a Swedish-American, Chicago based artist who graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1963 with a master's degree in Fine Arts. He taught art at Eastern Kentucky University from 1966 to 1969 and at North Park College in Chicago from 1971 to 1977. Carlson’s father was a Swedish immigrant from Småland, Sweden. Carlson grew up in Chicagos Lincoln Square neighborhood and created hundreds of works. He exhibited at the Swedish American Museum in the exhibit “Sacred & Secular.”Acquisition
Accession
2015.41Source or Donor
Mr. Steven AndersonAcquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist
Stuart Allen CarlsonDate made
1970Time Period
20th CenturyInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
SignatureLocation
Bottom right (Front)Transcription
Carlson 70Lexicon
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Art, Paintings, Oil paintingsDimensions
Height
37 inWidth
24-1/4 inDepth
7/8 inRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Carlson, Stuart AllenCopyright
Restrictions
This collection is open to research and does not contain sensitive information.Reproductions
Notes
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