Main Record
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.469.1-7
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Ernestine Ruben
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1931
- Medium and Support
- inkjet prints on fabric
- Object Creation Date
- 2009
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Dimensions
- 392.43 cm x 111.76 cm (154 1/2 in. x 44 in.)
- Century
- 21st century
- Primary Object Classification and Primary Object Type
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Photographabstract
- Secondary Object Classification and Secondary Object Type
-
Mixed Mediainstallation art
- Physical Description
- This work consists of seven photographic prints on semi-transparent fabric, gradually increasing in length, that hang from the sloping ceiling of a stairway in the Frankel Wing. Each panel of fabric has a different image including, craggy rocks, tree branches against the sky, sunlight reflecting on water and marshland, flames of fire and cloud like formations. Four are black and white images and the three others are color prints.
- Subject Matter
- These seven banners were created for the new Frankel wing of the museum and installed in the stairway between the second and third floors. Ruben's experimental approach to photography, with printing on semi-transparent fabric and sharp cropping of the images, creates a complex layered work in which multiple views reveal themselves as the viewer moves down the stairs. Though the subject of these scenes is naturalistic - rocks, water, fire, vegetation- there is an abstract quality to these forms.
- Primary Keywords
- metamorphic rock
- photographs by technique
- sunlight
- water
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- daylight
- descriptors
- electromagnetic radiation
- energy
- energy and related concepts
- inorganic material
- light (energy)
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- people and culture
- photographs
- physical sciences concepts
- physics concepts
- rock
- scientific concepts
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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