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Color Lesson VI
Artist:
Idelle Weber
(American, 1932 - 2020)
Date: 1984
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions:
55 × 128 in. (139.7 × 325.1 cm)
Other (Panels): 55 × 64 in. (139.7 × 162.6 cm)
Classification: Contemporary art
Credit Line: Gift of Kitty and Herbert Glantz
Copyright: © Idelle Weber
Object number: 2015.9
Not on view
DescriptionDiptych. Two panels making a scene of a water fountain, surrounded by flowers and a garden wall or arcade. The site depicted in Color Lesson VI is the Lotus Pond at Old Westbury Gardens in Westbury, New York. Signed and dated twice: lower left corner of the left panel, and lower right corner of the right panel: Weber ’84.
Exhibition History"Idelle Weber, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1982-1984," Siegel Contemporary Art, 24 West 57th Street, New York, April 3-28, 1984, n. pag, illustrated.
"Idelle Weber, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1982-1985," The Arts Club of Chicago, May 5 – June 25, 1986, n. pag, no. 2, illustrated.
"Idelle Weber, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1982-1985," The Arts Club of Chicago, May 5 – June 25, 1986, n. pag, no. 2, illustrated.
Label textIdelle Weber
American, 1932-2020
Color Lesson VI, 1984
Oil on linen
From a distance, this work may look like an example of computer animation, due to the mirroring at the top and bottom. However, upon closer examination, one can see the brushstrokes and impressionistic style, which attest to artist’s incredible painting skills. Idelle Weber has worked in a photorealist style since the 1970s. Here she represents a large garden scene, with water reflecting flowers and covered trellises. She even captures the rippled quality of the water’s surface. This painting shows how one can manipulate painterly materials to resemble another medium.
Gift of Kitty and Herbert Glantz 2015.9
American, 1932-2020
Color Lesson VI, 1984
Oil on linen
From a distance, this work may look like an example of computer animation, due to the mirroring at the top and bottom. However, upon closer examination, one can see the brushstrokes and impressionistic style, which attest to artist’s incredible painting skills. Idelle Weber has worked in a photorealist style since the 1970s. Here she represents a large garden scene, with water reflecting flowers and covered trellises. She even captures the rippled quality of the water’s surface. This painting shows how one can manipulate painterly materials to resemble another medium.
Gift of Kitty and Herbert Glantz 2015.9
Provenance
Purchased from Seigel Contemporary Art, New York, by Kitty and Herbert Glantz, New York, April 21, 1984. Gift of Kitty and Herbert Glantz to the Chrysler Museum of Art, June 2015.