Object Details
- Artist
- James Surls, born Terrell, TX 1943
- Gallery Label
- Black and White Tipped Flower captures the tornadoes, black earth, and tenacious animal energy of the Piney Woods of southeast Texas. Surls grew up in a house that his father built, and his art comes out of a lifetime of working with hand tools and "making do." He believes that everything he creates is both a self-portrait and an image of the land that shaped him. Flower is scary and comical, an animal-plant-man-creature rising from the thickets and looking for a mate. It calls to mind Surls's goal to be "a hump-backed beast with golden hands," unafraid to tap into the life-force of his home ground for images that tickle and terrify.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift in honor of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin from her friends
- 1982
- Object number
- 1986.52
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- burnt white oak
- Dimensions
- approx. 57 1/2 x 39 x 37 in. (146.0 x 99.0 x 94.0 cm.) irregular
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, W310
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Object\flower
- Record ID
- saam_1986.52
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk763399f87-f0ab-4f46-b10f-c90eb46a45b4
