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Image scanned from a transparency dated 8/1993 and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Fences
Image scanned from a transparency dated 8/1993 and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency dated 8/1993 and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Fences

Artist Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940 - 2015)
Date1991
MediumOil pastel on paper
DimensionsOverall: 42 x 38 1/2 in. (106.7 x 97.8 cm)
ClassificationsContemporary art
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number92.31
Terms
  • African-American Artist
  • homes
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DescriptionFENCES is an oil pastel drawing, rendered in an expressionistic, and spontaneous manner. Buchanan utilizes vibrant colors, juxtaposing jarring colors to remind the viewer that the shacks were made of found objects, and were painted in whatever color paint was available. In FENCES, three red houses, or shacks, are perched jauntily on a brightly colored field. Encircling them is a jagged fence, thus symbolizing the fence that separates one community from another.

Label TextBeverly Buchanan American, 1940-2015 Fences, 1991 Oil pastel on paper Museum purchase 92.31
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