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Black Caprice
199020th Century
21 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:
2009.11.28
Original Inventory Number: WM-050/377
Sillman’s method of gradually building up layers of watercolor required repeated application to obtain the rich black of Black Caprice, which contains perhaps his only completely solid fl®®che forms. Not surprisingly, the effect took over a month to achieve. In certain areas the black masses completely or nearly encircle areas of unpainted paper, causing the background and figure to momentarily change places in the viewer’s mind.
Sillman’s method of gradually building up layers of watercolor required repeated application to obtain the rich black of Black Caprice, which contains perhaps his only completely solid fl®®che forms. Not surprisingly, the effect took over a month to achieve. In certain areas the black masses completely or nearly encircle areas of unpainted paper, causing the background and figure to momentarily change places in the viewer’s mind.
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- image only Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 41 3/4 in.