Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
27 x 34 in. (sheet) 28 x 35 x 1-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed upper left: Siqueiros
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Ann Tyndall Durham
Copyright
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette
Provenance
(Ann Tyndall Durham Fund and Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall); purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1946.
Gallery Labels
The foreboding quality of the forest and the three tiny spotlighted figures, frozen in poses of fright and struggle, suggest the aftermath of a disaster.
The use of the explosive material pyroxylin, a fast drying duco, is in keeping with the artist's image of forces beyond man's control.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Reshape American Art, 1925-1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
February 17, 2020 - January 31, 2021
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974)
Museo Nacional de Arte
November 28, 1996 - February 16, 1997
(exhibition)
Indiana University Art Museum
1957 - 1957
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