Cactus / Graham Sutherland

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Accession Number
1954/2.39
Title
Cactus
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.
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1954/2.39
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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.
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