Pastel
Object number2024.101.2
Artist
Elizabeth Voelker
(born 1931)
Date1988
MediumPaper; Pastel; Ink
Credit LineGift of Bert Hansen
DescriptionPastel painting on rectangular medium-weight textured off-white paper. Painting depicts lakeside landscape with light blue and white snowy(?) foreground dotted with six green conical Italian Cypress trees, mid-ground features blue lake, and sky is light blue with purple and red undertones and yellow, green, blue, and peach sphere (sun or moon) offset slightly to the viewer's left of center; light blue concentric lines surround the sphere in the sky. Artist signature and date in viewer's bottom left corner in black ink. Reverse is unpainted, off-white paper with inset rectangle of darker acid-burn cream-colored discoloration; front image is faintly visible on reverse. DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 24 x 18 x 0.016 in. (61 x 45.7 x 0 cm)SignedArtist signature and date in viewer's bottom left corner in black ink "Voelker 3/88".
Historical NotesPastel painting by Elizabeth Voelker. This artwork watercolor was likely painted during a residency at Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy. Elizabeth Voelker was born in 1931 in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of three children. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in 1953 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. Voelker moved to San Francisco in 1958, and was a lecturer for museums in California and the University of California from 1972 to 1987. Among her achievements, Voelker received three grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Grant to the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Lake Como, Italy, and residences at the Djerassi Foundation in California, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received international recognition for her work in places like the American Academy in Rome, and sixteen pieces of her art were selected for the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program as a presentation of American art abroad. Voelker's art has been purchased by a number of public museums in the U.S. including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Institute Art Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Voelker's artwork is associated with the Addison/Ripley Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Cantor/Lemberg Gallery in Michigan, and Gallery 30 in San Mateo, CA.
Related institution
Carnegie Mellon University
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