Untitled
Untitled
Artist
Jean Bales
(Iowa, 1946 - 2004)
Dateca. 1970s-1980s
MediumGouache on paper
Dimensionsdiameter: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Framed: 20 5/16 in. × 20 5/16 in. × 1 in.
Framed: 20 5/16 in. × 20 5/16 in. × 1 in.
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.64
Signedl.l.: J. Bales (c)
Accession number
2020.64
On View
Not on viewLabel TextOklahoma-based artist Jean Bales dedicated herself to painting the history of her Iowa people who were relocated from northern lands in the nineteenth century to what is now known as Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. In Untitled, Bales paints multiple generations of Iowa women slicing and drying a large harvest of a type of squash called “delicata.” Bales depicted each figure and the two dogs individually through unique dress, hair style, and role in the activity.
La artista Jean Bales, radicada en Oklahoma, se dedicó a pintar la historia del pueblo iowa, que fue trasladado en el siglo XIX desde las tierras del norte hasta lo que hoy se conoce como Kansas, Nebraska y Oklahoma. En Sin título, Jean Bales pinta a varias generaciones de mujeres iowa que cortan y ponen a secar una gran cosecha de un tipo de calabaza llamada “delicata”. Bales retrató a cada personaje y a los dos perros por separado a través de una vestimenta, un peinado y un papel únicos en la actividad.
