Riverside Lounge

Birney Imes

1989

  • Titles Riverside Lounge (Proper)
  • Artist Birney Imes, American, born 1951
  • Medium color coupler print
  • Dimensions sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1989 Museum Dinner and Ball in honor of Mrs. Peter T. Worthen, Chairman, and Co-Chairmen Mrs. Drayton Nabers, Jr., Mrs. Douglas K. S. Hyland, and Mrs. Frederick W. Murray, Jr., 1990.24, image © Birney Imes
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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This is a square work of three people playing dominos against a flat black background. The central figure on the upper left quadrant of the work has a red and white striped oval face, red eye areas with black eyes and eyebrows, a red nose, black mustache and white lips. His white shirt has is short sleeved and his arms are brown and resting on a white table with four dominos on the right side. His hands are holding two dominos pieces. The figure to the left is only visible by two arms extending from the left and bottom left of the canvas. They are holding sevaral dominos in his hands. Two arms with yellow hands and white nails extend from the bottom of the canvas. They are holding six dice. Both figures have white sleeves. The right hand of the work is a white strip of fabric.
The upper third of the work is painted blue, green, and red with areas of purple. The head of a figure interrupts the band about two thirds of the way across. The head has a light blue outline. Half of the head is painted black and the other is a stylized depiction of a face rendered in black, white, and tan. The middle register of the painting is a combination of abstract, gestural marks and collage paper. The right center register contains an image of a young boy with his finger in his mouth. Driskell signed the work on the bottom right center register. The lower portion of the canvas contains black, gestural marks interspersed with tan and gray sections.
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