Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Birdwell, Robert |
Title |
Face of a City |
Medium |
Oil on canvas |
Date |
1957 |
Description |
Robert Birdwell (Knoxville 1924-2016 Knoxville) Face of a City, 1957 Oil on canvas 32 x 40 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1986 gift of the Knoxville Arts Center For Robert Birdwell, downtown Knoxville was a favorite painting location. In his canvases and watercolors from the 1950s and 1960s, he tended to reduce the city's features to a network of colorful, interlocking geometric forms. In the foreground is Knoxville's L & N Station, located near the KMA at the intersection of Summit Hill Drive and Henley Street. Birdwell was a founding member of the Knoxville 7, a progressive local art group active from the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s. |
Catalog Number |
1986.08.15 |
Search Terms |
Oil paintings Cityscape paintings Cityscapes Paintings Dulin Gallery of Art Knoxville Seven |
Credit line |
Gift of the Knoxville Arts Center |