Queen for a Day
Artist:
John Alexander
(American, born 1945)
Date: 1986
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions:
48 × 37 in. (121.9 × 94 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Bill and Sue Sue Bounds in honor of Tom Spicer
Object number: 2017.23.1
Label Text
In this limited-edition print, the artist presents a macabre wedding ceremony where crazed monkeys, serpents, and skeletons bear witness. Influenced by the moral insistence and satirical aspects of the work of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828) and the allegorical, Romantic work of the Hudson River school painters of the American northeast, Alexander’s expressive landscape offers a critique on society and the human condition. The artist spent much of his childhood on camping and fishing trips in the bayous and woods of East Texas, and has made nature, flora, and fauna his frequent subject for nearly five decades. In 1979, Alexander moved to Amagansett, New York, and while his figurative work is oftentimes scathing or caustic—representing “nature at its grandest and man at his worst”—in the past ten years his landscapes have become more serene, with nods to the impressionist Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926).
(Suzanne Weaver, 2019)
(Suzanne Weaver, 2019)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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