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Artist |
Wilmarth, Christopher |
Title |
Long Leavers |
Medium |
Watercolor on paper |
Date |
1980 |
Description |
Christopher Wilmarth (Sonoma, California 1943-1987 Brooklyn) Long Leavers, 1980 Watercolor on paper 16 x 12 1/8 inches (unframed) Knoxville Museum of Art, 2017 purchase with funds provided by Mary Hale Corkran in memory of her husband Blair Christopher Wilmarth was a talented mixed-media sculptor known for his refined architectural forms made of industrial materials. By the early 1970s, he began producing hard-edged sculptures energized by the contrasting properties of dense sheet steel and luminous plate glass. Shaped only by a few cuts and bends, the raw sheet steel in Long Leavers suggests a soaring cathedral illuminated by a vertical slab of glass. Wilmarth brushes the glass with acid to produce a velvety surface that radiates a soft glow when lit. By avoiding any unnecessary decoration, the artist seeks to call attention to the rugged nature of his materials, to surrounding spaces, and most of all to the dramatic interplay of light and shadow. |
Catalog Number |
2017.04.02 |
Search Terms |
Watercolors Paper Paintings |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by Mary Hale Corkran in memory of her husband Blair |