Title:
FIGURE (NO. 15)
Artist:
Kerkam, Earl (1891-1965)
Medium:
Oil/Paperboard
Date:
1955
Source:
Collection of George and Elinor Poindexter
Object ID:
X1968.07.10
Description:
This painting is a portrait of a person from the chest up. The person is highly abstracted and the paint has been applied geometrically, in planes. These planes come together to create a face made up of browns, blues, yellows, greens and reds. The shoulders and chest of the sitter are mainly done in a flat yellow with red and blue accents around the shoulders. The background is yellow with purple diamonds on the left side of the figure and blue markings on the right.