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

Fences

Artist Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940 - 2015)

CultureAmerican

Date1991

MediumOil pastel on paper

DimensionsOverall: 42 x 38 1/2 in. (106.7 x 97.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number92.31

Not on view

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 Exhibition History"Beverly Buchanan: In Celebration of Improvisational Architecture", exhibition brochure, Schering-Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ. May 29 - June 26, 1992. Reproduced twice, color on back cover. BEVERLY BUCHANAN, Parameters Gallery, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, July 19 - September 20, 1992. "Beverly Buchanan: ShackWorks, A 16-Year Survey", The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, April 10 - May 22, 1994; Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, July - September, 1994; The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY, October - December, 1994. "Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," October 25, 1996 - February 16, 1997. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010. Published References"Contemporary Women Artists", 1993 (NY: Abbeville Press), reproduced in color for month of June.