Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
26 x 35 in. (canvas) 27--3/4 x 36-3/4 x 1-3/4 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed, in gray paint, lower right: Stevens, | 39 Inscribed in artist's hand, verso, stretcher: WINGED FORM tempera & oil | Stevens Inscribed in chalk, verso: Will Henry Stevens | Tulane University | New Orleans | 1939 | Collection | Onya LaTour 1939
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Long
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Given by the artist to Onya La Tour [1896-1976], Nashville, Indiana, and later Greenwood, Indiana; purchased from her in 1971 by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Long, Indianapolis, Indiana;{1} given to Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1971. {1} See E.W. L, "The Onya La Tour Collection" in Recent Accessions 1966-1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Fall 1972, pp. 38-40.
Gallery Labels
The subject's origins in nature are suggested through color and texture and the repetition and layering of forms, which create a rhythm reminiscent of fluttering wings.
Indiana-born Stevens was originally a landscape painter who eventually produced works that expressed nature in an abstract manner.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
September 10, 1950 - October 15, 1950
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