Figural Variations is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of Western Art Associates Endowment For Western American Art and Mabel Woodyard Endowment for American Art, with additional support from the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members.
ABOUT THE INSTALLATION
The human figure is one of the most popular subjects in art, depicted by painters, sculptors, photographers, and others throughout history. Capturing the curves, shadows, and nuances of the human form is also one of the most fundamental skills learned by art students in their training.
Lorser Feitelson, Love: Eternal Recurrence (Amor: recurrencia eterna), 1935-1936. Oil on canvas. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lorenz Anderman. © The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Orange, Calif. (Header) Rebecca Campbell, Unwritten: Dylan (No escrito: Dylan) (detail), 2004. Oil on canvas. Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan in honor of Sara Cochran, Modern and Contemporary Art Curator, Phoenix Art Museum 2008-2013.
Figural Variations illuminates the ways American artists through the centuries have interpreted the human figure in painted portraits and self-portraits. These works, drawn from the collection of Phoenix Art Museum, portray a broad range of subjects in various artistic styles.
Featured paintings include those by Marcia Marcus, Sylvia Sleigh, Lorser Feitelson, and Arthur B. Carles. Also included is a work by Japanese-American artist Miné Okubo.
IMAGE CREDIT
Marcia Marcus, Self Portrait at MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire (Autorretrato en la Colonia MacDowell, Nuevo Hampshire), 1969. Oil on canvas. Gift of American Academy of Arts and Letters Childe Hassam Fund. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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