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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Woman with Gloves
Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Woman with Gloves

Artist (1914 - 1985)
Dateca. 1950-1960
MediumOil on board
Dimensions14 1/4 × 13 1/2 in. (36.2 × 34.3 cm)
Framed: 21 1/4 × 19 3/8 × 1 3/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Gift of Dr. Loretta M. Britton, 2018.39
Signedl.l.: Sebree
Accession number 2018.39
On View
On view
Provenance(Tyler Fine Art, St. Louis, MO); purchased by Dr. Loretta M. Britton, Kansas City, MO, 2012; given to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2018
Label TextIn the twentieth century, new standards of beauty included modern painting styles. Charles Sebree abstracted the human figure by flattening the body into planes of muted color, separated by dark outlines. His bold forms recall the simplicity and directness of Byzantine art and icon paintings from the past. Art historian James A. Porter praised this quality early in Sebree’s career in the book Modern Negro Art, published in 1943. Porter wrote that Sebree’s work “is conceived in a mood of contemplation and recalls the mystical purity of Byzantine enamels or Russian icon painting.”

En el Siglo XX, los estilos modernos de pintura eran parte de los nuevos estándares de belleza. Charles Sebree creó un modelo abstracto del cuerpo humano con figuras aplanadas de colores apagados, separados por marcadas líneas oscuras. Sus atrevidos trazos evocan lo simple y directo del arte bizantino, así como antiguas pinturas icónicas. En el libro Modern Negro Art, publicado en 1943, el historiador de arte James A. Porter elogió la calidad de las pinturas de Sebree cuando la carrera de éste apenas comenzaba. Porter escribió que el trabajo de Sebree “es concebido con un sentimiento de contemplación y evoca la pureza mística de los esmaltes bizantinos y de las pinturas icónicas del arte ruso.”
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