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Window VII

George Tooker

Date: 1963

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.168

Text Entries: Born in New York, George Tooker began painting lessons at the age of seven. He later studied English at Harvard University where he became aware of the work of the Mexican painters José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Their unabashed depictions of and comments on social conditions greatly appealed to Tooker and came to serve as an ideal for him: art as a forum for social change. At a time best known for abstract art, Tooker's preference for figurative representation stands out. His painting technique, however, is equally fascinating. Using egg tempera according to a fifteenth century formula, Tooker sized, primed, sketched and painted with deliberation and care, a painstaking process that allowed for the completion of only four to six paintings each year. This process of deliberation, of even mental control, always underlies his enigmatic images. In Highway, Tooker's technique is brought to a high degree of finish and creates a disquieting image of disrupted order. A decade after Highway, Tooker completed Window VII (Desdemona), the sixth painting in his "windows" series. Ultimately consisting of nine numbered paintings, the series was initially started shortly after Tooker's move to Brooklyn Heights in the early 1950s. Tooker utilizes the traditional convention of a window as a framing device to push his figures forward to the picture plane and place them in shallow relief. The drawn curtain reveals a young nude white woman and over her shoulder in the painting's upper left corner, the emerging face of a black man. The viewer is left to decipher the suggested narrative. If, as the title suggests, this is Othello and Desdemona from Shakespeare's play Othello, the highly-charged, mysterious atmosphere of the painting also forebodes tragedy.

Kleberg

Jamie Wyeth

Date: 1984

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.164

Text Entries: Jamie Wyeth. (exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc.). New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., 1984. Text p. 2; ill. cover (color). "Jamie Wyeth at Coe Kerr Gallery." Art New/U.S.A. (Summer 1984). Text p. 10; ill. p. 10 (black & white). Preble, Michael. Jamie Wyeth: An American View. (exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art). Portland, Maine: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1984. Text pp. 8, 37 (checklist). Duff, James H. et al. An American Vision; Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth. (exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum). Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. Ill. p. 62 (color). Atkinson, D. Scott et al. A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Ill. p. 296, pl. T-187 (color). Kleberg, Jamie Wyeth. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, September 1991. Ill. (black & white). Dog Days by Jamie Wyeth. (exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum). Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, 2007. Text p. 23; ill. p. 22 (color). Associated Press. “Black-eyed dog art up for auction.” Chicago Sun-Times (February 27, 2011): 3A. Text p. 3A. Davis, Elliot Bostwick. Jamie Wyeth. (exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Boston: MFA Publications, 2014. Text p. 95; p. 197, cat. no. 65; ill. cover (color, detail); p. 122, cat. no. 65 (color). <a href="http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/2014/07/jamie-wyeth-paintings/" target="_blank">“Portrait.”</a> Art & Antiques Magazine (July 2014). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text. Keyes, Bob. <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/07/20/jamie-wyeth-revealed/" target="_blank">"Boston museum opens major Jamie Wyeth retrospective.”</a> The Portland Press Herald (July 20, 2014). Accessed January 13, 2017. Ill. (color). <a href="http://wsimag.com/art/11080-jamie-wyeth" target="_blank">"Jamie Wyeth."</a> Wall Street International (September 10, 2014). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text; ill. (color). Standring, Timothy J. Wyeth: Andrew & Jamie in the Studio (exh. cat., Denver Art Museum). Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2015. Text p. 102, cat. no. 61; ill. p. 103, cat. no. 61 (color); p. 204, cat. no. 61 (checklist). Conway, Terry. <a href="http://www.thehuntmagazine.com/feature/2015/01/jamies-world/" target="_blank">"Jamie’s World.”</a> The Hunt Magazine (January 19, 2015). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text (as Kleberg, Partly Cloudy); ill. (color, as Kleberg). Saul, Ann. <a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/get-real/89017/" target="_blank">"Get Real." </a> The New York Sun (January 26, 2015). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text. Talorico, Patricia and Maureen Milford. <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/02/25/frigid-tempatures-put-chill-jamie-wyeth-exhibition/24032281/" target="_blank">"Museum removes 14 Wyeth paintings to avoid damage.” </a> Delaware Online (February 25, 2015). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text; ill. (color detail, appears in installation photograph). Rinaldi, Ray Mark. <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2015/11/12/dam-tries-to-rewrite-art-history-nearly-succeeds/" target="_blank">“DAM tries to rewrite art history. Nearly succeeds.”</a> The Denver Post (November 12, 2015). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text. Rawlings, Irene. <a href ="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/07/born-to-paint/" target="_blank">“Jamie Wyeth: Born to Paint.” </a>The Saturday Evening Post (July/August 2016). Accessed January 16, 2017. Text; ill. (color, detail).

Kalounna in Frogtown

Jamie Wyeth

Date: 1986

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.163

Text Entries: The youngest child of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth showed an interest in art at an early age. Following the sixth grade, Wyeth was schooled at home by his own request and began a period of formal art training. He later studied with his father at the family's Pennsylvania farm and studio founded by his grandfather. By the age of twenty, Wyeth had his first solo exhibition and was soon known for his depictions of such celebrities as Andy Warhol and John F. Kennedy. Wyeth continually draws upon his surroundings for inspiration and his native Pennsylvania landscape has provided a powerful source of imagery. With his carefully controlled realist technique and tight, spare compositions, Wyeth transforms the ordinary into the monumental. Kalounna in Frogtown depicts the eleven-year-old Kalounna, a Laotian refugee who lived with his parents on Wyeth's farm. Wearing a tee-shirt from the popular television show Dallas with arms at his side, Kalounna fills the foreground of the painting. A figure that commands attention, he appears as an adolescent in transition, both vulnerable and confrontational.