Interior: Late August
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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
- Object number
- 1986.6.16
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- egg tempera on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 23 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (59.0 x 41.3 cm.)
- 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
- Record ID
- saam_1986.6.16
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7477b6556-cc90-4ad6-967b-abe95c704db2
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