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Sarah McEneaney

Bedroom

Maker

Sarah McEneaney (American, b.1955)

Title

Bedroom

Year

1995

Medium

  • Egg tempera on gessoed wood

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Egg tempera on gessoed wood

Materials

tempera

Supports

  • wood

Dimensions

67.6 x 91.4 cm (26 5/8 x 36 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2004.24.1

Type

  • Paintings

Exhibition History

The Figure
Contemporary Works from the Collection
Mar 12, 2010 – Mar 03, 2011

Label copy

Sarah McEneaney paints autobiographical narratives based on her immediate surroundings, such as this interior of the bedroom she lived in during her 1995 artist’s residency at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Working from observation, memory, and imagination, McEneaney captures the emotional as well as the physical character of a particular situation or event, whether mundane or dramatic, with remarkably vivid detail, colors, and patterns. McEneaney's use of egg tempera recalls early Renaissance panel painting, but she significantly rejects the use of one-point perspective typical of Western art since that era. In viewing the details of her experiences we observe the artist’s life, while we are asked to contemplate our own.

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Sarah McEneaney (American, b.1955)
Bedroom, 1995
Egg tempera on gessoed wood
67.6 x 91.4 cm (26 5/8 x 36 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2004.24.1

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