Drawing
Object number2014.44.8
Artist
Jane Haskell
(1923 - 2013)
MediumPaper/Graphite/Colored Pencil
Credit LineGift of Estate of Jane Haskell
DescriptionPencil drawing on rectangular white graph paper with light purple grid lines. Drawing features geometric forms outlined in graphite and filled in with varying shades of red, green, blue, and purple colored pencil. Overlapping colored pencil background in red, pink, blue, and purple.Dimensions13.063 x 18.25 in. (33.2 x 46.4 cm)InscriptionsHandwritten graphite text surrounds drawing: at bottom center "RED NEON TUBE / BEHIND PYRAMID FORM", in bottom right corner "NEON BACKLIGHTING / for proposal: TAKING FLIGHT", and in top right corner "BLUE NEON TUBE / BEHIND BASE FORM".
Historical NotesThis is a drawn proposal for artwork titled Taking Flight. Jane Haskell, born Shirley Jane Zirinsky, was born in Cedarhurst, Long Island, New York on November 24, 1923, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 28, 2013. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1944 where she studied painting and design. She married Edward Norton Haskell in August of 1945. The family moved from New York to Pittsburgh in 1949. She earned a master's degree in art history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961. She taught at Duquesne University for a decade. In her early career she was a painter and sculptor, and in 1979 she began to incorporate neon and light elements into her artwork.
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