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American
(1934–1992)
Bird
1965
Oil on canvas
22.75 x 18.75 x 1.5 in.
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2011.78
Living and working largely on the West Coast in the 1960s, Leslie Kerr for the most part resisted the dominant pop art impulses of the period and styled himself as an abstract painter. Bird, however, painted in the mid-1960s, is a fascinating example of Kerr’s work that combines different forms and styles. The image is of a dark blue winged sphere situated in the center of an empty, light-gray background. The painting’s flattened surface, bearing no evidence of brushstrokes, along with the clean, sharp lines of the winged sphere, gesture toward a kind of pop graphic style, while the absence of any immediately apparent external referent signals a sort of abstraction. At the same time, though, the image possesses a profoundly surreal quality in its merging of these seemingly incongruous elements.
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