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Constellation: Xerxes
198920th Century
29 1/2 in. x 41 3/4 in.
Sewell Sillman, American, (1921–1992)
Object Type:
Work on Paper
Medium and Support:
watercolor on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Sewell Sillman Foundation
Accession Number:
2009.11.27
Original Inventory Number, WM-018/345
Thin bands of silver metallic paint punctuate the light edges of several fleche forms in Constellation: Xerxes, negating the glowing effect that appears in many of Sillman’s late works. Sillman occasionally used silver, as in the scratchboard and screenprint in the first gallery, in a manner akin to Renaissance artists who adorned altarpieces with precious gold leaf.
Thin bands of silver metallic paint punctuate the light edges of several fleche forms in Constellation: Xerxes, negating the glowing effect that appears in many of Sillman’s late works. Sillman occasionally used silver, as in the scratchboard and screenprint in the first gallery, in a manner akin to Renaissance artists who adorned altarpieces with precious gold leaf.
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