2003.75: Alibi 2
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.75
- People
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Julian Lethbridge, American (Colombo, Sri Lanka born 1947)
- Title
- Alibi 2
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1992
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/98571
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 101.9 x 86.4 cm (40 1/8 x 34 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Greenberg, Beverly Hills, California, gift (through Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Greenberg in honor of James Cuno
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.75
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A thickly painted oil on linen in creamy white, incised with gouged strokes that appear to have been stained, rather than painted, by a brush loaded with heavily thinned black paint. The lines are widely spaced and concentric about the various loosely-drawn shapes, which gives an almost cartoon-like sense of startle to the surface. This effect is heightened by the perception of what seems to be a face, as well other possible anatomical allusions. The painting is housed in a simple black-stained wood frame. (Artist's? collector's?)
- Commentary
- Julian Lethbridge, a Cambridge-educated British artist who has lived in New York since 1973, is usually described as an abstract, expressive (if not expressionist) artist. Often appearing to base his imagery on organic stuffs, like grasses or branches, he has mined the possibilities available to varied densities of ground, and to patterns of lines, mostly overlapping -- either densely hatched and straight, or gnarly and thicket-like -- both in black and white and in varying degrees of stained and directly applied color, in painting, drawing, and printmaking.(His printmaking is extensive and much praised for its variation and control.) Lethbridge is also a much-celebrated teacher and has taught on the faculties of Columbia University, Yale, and Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Verification Level
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