%C2%A9 Robert Barber
Pink Cartons, 2013
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Acrylic on posterboardexpand_more
Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds, 2018expand_more 2018.92.1
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Robert Barber is a painter and sculptor who loves the physical act of creation and is fascinated by the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. He constructs his sculptures by using pieces of scavenged cardboard. In Pink Cartons, the die-cut shapes and folded forms of cardboard boxes are readily apparent. It examines spaces, voids, and planes, all on a flat surface. Though sculptural in its analysis, the drawing’s making is painterly, with layered and blended colors.
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
- Pink Cartons
- Artist Life
- born 1922
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2018.92.1
- 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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