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American
(1945–2001)
Son's of the Desert Charcoal
1975
Graphite and charcoal on paper
25.125 x 33.25 x 1.25 in.
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2011.76
This is the original sketch for a ten-by-twenty-seven-foot oil and enamel painting on linen, commissioned for the 1975 exhibition Terry Schoonhoven: The Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad Paints a Mural for the Newport Harbor Art Museum. The subject matter is quintessential Schoonhoven, and this time-shifting pop-surrealist implied narrative summons up many questions: what apocalypse left this ambiguous vista in its wake? Are there any survivors to discover the knowledge in the remaining books? Is the abandoned interior a repository of rarefied cultural treasure, or a terrarium succumbing to an onslaught of environmental forces that will inevitably overwhelm it?
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