Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Leland, Whitney |
Title |
Untitled |
Medium |
Acrylic on canvas |
Date |
1977 |
Description |
Whitney Leland (Washington, DC 1945; lives and works in Knoxville) Untitled, 1977 Acrylic on canvas 78 x 60 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2008 gift of Beverly and Harold Duckett Leland has achieved national recognition for his vibrant organic abstractions. For more than four decades, Leland was an influential member of the University of Tennessee's painting faculty. Throughout his career he has explored the process of painting with great discipline by restricting his imagery to a limited set of variables-tangled, symmetrically arranged tentacles of color. These shapes are created through a labor-intensive method of applying precise shapes of wet paint onto a flat canvas in multiple layers. Leland is one of the earliest graduates of the University of Tennessee's art program, and studied with Knoxville Seven artist Walter Hollis Stevens (1927-1980), whose paintings are on view in the Higher Ground gallery across the hall on this floor. |
Catalog Number |
2008.04.02 |
Search Terms |
Acrylic paintings Paintings Canvas Abstract works Abstract paintings |
Credit line |
Gift of Beverly and Harold Duckett |