Interior: Late August

Object Details

Artist: Wynn Chamberlain, born Minneapolis, MN 1927-died New Delhi, India 2014

Luce Center Label: Wynn Chamberlain created this painting at the suggestion of an art dealer, who was exhibiting portraits of interior spaces. This haunting view of an unmade bed, open window, and a pinup calendar leads us to wonder who lives there. We can only see a corner of the bed, and it is easy to imagine the anonymous occupant is asleep. We are voyeurs, spying through the keyhole under the darkness of night.
Luce Object Quote: “This room never existed except in my mind. It is a composite of a number of rooms I’ve been in at one time or another---peopled by the discords or possessions of those who have been there.” Wynn Chamberlain

Credit Line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation

1955

See more items in: Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department: Painting and Sculpture
On View: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 39A; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic: Cityscape\season\summer; Object\furniture\chair; Architecture Interior\detail\window; Architecture Interior\domestic\bedroom; Object\furniture\bed

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7477b6556-cc90-4ad6-967b-abe95c704db2