%C2%A9 Robert Barber
Dos Equis II, 2013
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Acrylic on posterboard ,mounted on foamcore boardexpand_more
Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Fund, 2018expand_more 2018.92.2
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In this portrait of a torn and flattened Dos Equis beer carton, the painter and sculptor Robert Barber examines the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. As a sculptor, he builds objects from scavenged cardboard. As a painter, he is equally aware of structured layering and uses scrubby strokes that allow layers of color to show through from below.
A Minneapolis native, Barber earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1952. A prolific painter and sculptor, it would be six decades before he received significant public recognition. Then, at the age of 93, in 2015, the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art organized a major retrospective of his career. He soon had a series of gallery exhibitions in New York, and this drawing was selected by a jury of famous artists as a gift to Mia.
Details
- Title
- Dos Equis II
- Artist Life
- born 1922
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2018.92.2
- Provenance
- Purchased from the artist by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2018; given to MIA.
- Curator Approved
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