Maria Napolitano

Garden CLose-Ups/Toy Soldiers 2

Maker

Maria Napolitano (American, b.1949), (RISD Museum Security Guard)

Title

Garden CLose-Ups/Toy Soldiers 2

Year

2011

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2013.5

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 16: Intimacy

RISD Museum’s Manual 16 Embraces Intimacy

Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
-Carl Phillips

The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.

Exhibition History

Locally Made
Jul 12, 2013 – Nov 15, 2013

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Tombstone

Maria Napolitano (American, b.1949)
Garden CLose-Ups/Toy Soldiers 2, 2011
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD 2013.5

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