Cactus / Graham Sutherland
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.39
- Title
- Cactus
- Artist
- Graham Sutherland
- Artist Nationality
- British
- Artist Life Dates
- 1903 - 1980
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1950
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- surrealist
- Inscription
- Signed and dated u.r. corner: G.S. 1950 Verso, inscribed with white chalk, center of canvas: 107/107
- Dimensions
- 58.4 cm x 51.3 cm (23 in. x 20 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- abstract
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- still life
- Physical Description
- Three forms that are simulatenously organic and sculptural stand in a line. At their base they appear sculptural or vessel-like, but further up they become more organic and cactus-like in their form. The table and background are yellow. The forms are executed mostly with white, off-white, and gray.
- Subject Matter
- Sutherland's unruly, partly sculptural, partly organic forms appear to take unexpected shapes on their own. The ferile organicism suggests the non-humanity of nature, but this organicism is connected to the human, rational world via the sculptural.
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- biomorphic abstraction
- cacti
- growth
- oil painting
- still lifes
- surrealism
- surrealist
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- biological concepts
- buildings and the land
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- european
- european styles and periods
- forms of expression
- genres
- image-making processes and techniques
- landscapes (environments)
- life
- modern and contemporary art
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- movement
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people and culture
- plants
- processes and techniques
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- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
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- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 761 x 883
- File Size
- 67 KB
- Record
- 1954/2.39
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.39/1954_2.39.jpg
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"Cactus; Graham Sutherland." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.39/1954_2.39.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.