(Man Seated at Table - Samoa) by Dorr Bothwell

(Man Seated at Table - Samoa) by Dorr Bothwell

(Man Seated at Table - Samoa)

Dorr Bothwell

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Title

(Man Seated at Table - Samoa)

 
Artist

Dorr Bothwell

  1902 - 2000 (biography)
Year
1928  
Technique
graphite drawing 
Image Size
10 5/8 x 8 1/4" image size 
Signature
pencil signed, lower left hand corner of image 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
dated after signature 
Reference
 
Paper
unknown 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
ABMM262 
Price
$850.00 
Description
In the early 1920s Dorr Bothwell took courses in scuplture from Ralph Stackpole, who was greatly influenced by the work of Diego Rivera. The style of the Mexican Modernist sculptors, painters, and muralists influenced many of the leading modern artists of California, and this is likely where Bothwell's stylized imagery came from. In her first images of the island of Samoa - where she landed in summer of 1928 - Bothwell's figures could be mistaken for the preliminary mural sketches of Mexican artists: voluminous, rounded shapes with minimal detail, keeping the visual information relegated to a brief and intimate moment. In this image a Samoan man is seated cross-legged on a chair, one arm draped over the back of the chair and the other resting a dining table. 
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