Basic Format Meandering Line in the Forest

Robert Barry

1968

  • Titles Basic Format Meandering Line in the Forest (Proper)
  • Artist Robert Barry, American, born 1936
  • Medium black ink and graphite on printed paper
  • Dimensions 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, THE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008.42, image © Robert Barry
  • Work Type drawing
  • Classification Drawings

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A bright red house against a vivid blue sky. The windows and door have white mullions and the black panes denote darkness within the house. A black-and-white checkerboard patio occupies the foreground to the right, while purple irises grow in the extreme foreground at left.
The Grand Canal, which primarily comprises the foreground, has varied blues and greens; a scattering of ships line the canal on both ends; the canal, which sharply recedes into space, culminates in a small but luminous sunset; saturated oranges radiate from around the setting sun and then suffuse into the sky, which has various shades of cool blues and pinks; there is also some impasto in the center of the composition in the sky, where Moran has built up a lot of white; the domes of Santa Maria della Salute can be seen on the right bank of the canal and, although inaccurate in terms of its actual location, the Campanile of St. Marks can be seen on the left bank.
Press print with caption "CAMDEN, ALA. March. 31--RUNS FROM SMOKE BOMB--A Negro girl screams for help just after Camden city officials used smoke bombs to disperse a group of civil rights marches at the city limits. City officials stopped the Negro youths at the city limits when they could not produce a parade permit. The Negroes marched to protest at a local Negro high school which the principal would not permit his students to take part in civil rights demonstrations. (AP Wirephoto) (bh41900sft/bh) 1965 / See AP Wire Story"
Arikara Medicine Ceremony-Dance of the Black-Tail Deer, Edward Sheriff Curtis, photogravure