Daughters by Patricia Tobacco Forrester

Daughters by Patricia Tobacco Forrester

Daughters

Patricia Tobacco Forrester

Title

Daughters

 
Artist
Year
1975  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
14 3/4 x 17 7/8 
Signature
lower right pencil 
Edition Size
11 of 80  
Annotations
title 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
10650 
Price
SOLD
Description

“Daughters” appears to be a classical portrayal of the female nude in nature. Upon closer inspection, however, the scene is more surreal, as the perched figures of five unclothed women emerge from a web of branches, their own limbs growing from the tree in a Daphnean depiction. Intimate and powerful, there is no trace of romantic sexuality here, but rather a commentary on the inextricable connection between human and nature. The complexity of detail, which obscures direct narrative and allows the viewer to be led by their own imagination, recalls the work of Max Klinger.

Tobacco-Forrester’s work often centered around trees, with both her watercolors and her prints conveying the silent strength of cypress, oaks, and other flora of her surroundings in their twisting, aged beauty. This etching was done while the artist lived in California and another impression from the edition was exhibited in “Prints California” at the Oakland Museum in 1975.