Suspension
Artist:
Dorothy Antoinette (Toni) LaSelle
(American, 1901 - 2002)
Place made:United States
General region:North and Central America
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
with frame: 24 3/4 × 18 7/8 in. (62.9 × 47.9 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with the American and European Paintings Fund
Object number: 2017.6
Label Text
Bold shapes divide this canvas into areas of bright primary color and negative space. Toni LaSelle was the first artist in Texas to commit to a nonrepresentational style, which she discovered thanks to a professor of hers at Nebraska Wesleyan University who had seen the 1913 Armory Show, the groundbreaking exhibition in New York that introduced American audiences to modernism. LaSelle recalled: “I began to realize that to do representational work really stood for a time and thinking that really wasn’t in accord with the time in which I was living.” She honed her style through further study at the New Bauhaus, in Chicago, and at the Hans Hofmann School, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The artist taught for nearly half a century at Texas Woman’s University, in Denton.
(William Rudolph, 2017)
(William Rudolph, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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