The Chair in the Smoke House
Artist:
Marilyn Lanfear
(American, 1930 - 2020)
Date: 2011
Place made:San Antonio, Texas, United States
Medium: Found objects (wood)
Dimensions:
h. 20 in. (50.8 cm); w. 35 in. (88.9 cm); d. 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilyn Lanfear
Object number: 2016.33.6
Copyright: © Marilyn Lanfear
Label Text
My greatest skill is in arranging things. Words, ideas, physical objects. Putting things together. Whether side by side, left or right, or one on top of the other.
—Marilyn Lanfear
The artist collected the found objects assembled here—fragments of architectural details and small cabinets to store jewelry or prized possessions—over a period of many years. In a composition unified by a muted palette, the objects bear witness to the passage of time with scratches, scuffs, and peeling paint suggesting previous use. The title of the work alludes to Lanfear’s grandmother’s smoke house in Navarro, Texas, and offers the setting to an ambiguous narrative.
(Lana Meador, Label Text 2018)
—Marilyn Lanfear
The artist collected the found objects assembled here—fragments of architectural details and small cabinets to store jewelry or prized possessions—over a period of many years. In a composition unified by a muted palette, the objects bear witness to the passage of time with scratches, scuffs, and peeling paint suggesting previous use. The title of the work alludes to Lanfear’s grandmother’s smoke house in Navarro, Texas, and offers the setting to an ambiguous narrative.
(Lana Meador, Label Text 2018)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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