Woolworth's
Artist:
Richard Estes
(American, born 1936)
Place made:United States, North and Central America
Date: 1974
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
38 x 55 in. (96.5 x 139.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Lillie and Roy Cullen Endowment Fund
Object number: 82.76
Label Text
While Woolworth’s bears the precision of a photograph it is, in fact, a painting. A leader of the Photorealist genre that emerged in the late 1960s, Richard Estes often focuses on reflective surfaces, such as a plate glass shop window, in his urban landscapes. Although appearing to capture a street scene with photographic accuracy, Estes’s image is one of his own reality. Here, the cityscape is strangely uninhabited and the concrete is too clean. An absence of human intervention or narrative allows commonplace elements of the urban environment, which often go unnoticed, to be seen, explored, and appreciated. (Lana Meador, 2020)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
The San Antonio Museum of Art is in the process of digitizing its permanent collection. This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect SAMA's complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
This resource has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.
