Constance Mallinson

American, b. 1948

For All and For None
1983

Acrylic on canvas
77.5 x 112.75 x 1.875 in.
Gift of Dorothy Nelson in memory of her husband L. Clair and Museum Purcahse with the Charter Member Endowment Fund
2010.42

Constance Mallinson’s For All and For None is both a critique of the advertising that compelled Westward expansion and at the same time, as she wrote, “an homage and a love affair with these brilliant artists—Church, Cole and Bierstadt—these are artists I love and their work has been a deep inspiration and influence on my painting.” Borrowing its title from Nietzsche who was constantly deconstructing the western canon of literature and philosophy, the painting is composed of appropriations of diverse mass media/photographic landscape imagery. Collaging these idealized and picturesque images of nature into multiple perspectives rather than a singular one, likewise “deconstructs” the typical traditional scenic landscape.

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This object has the following keywords:

• beach
• bodies of water
• clouds
• hill
• landscape
• mountain
• nature
• ocean
• river
• sky
• sunset - The apparent descent of the sun below the horizon, signaling the closing of the day.
• trees - Woody, perennial plants usually with a single, long, self-supporting stem or trunk, and which grow to a considerable height.
• waterfall

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• New Acquisitions 2011 , 6/16/2011 - 12/6/2011
• The Day After Tomorrow; Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art , 7/1/2020 - 12/19/2020

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