Untitled by Anna Keeney

Untitled by Anna Keeney

Untitled

Anna Keeney

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Title

Untitled

 
Artist

Anna Keeney

  1898 - 1945 (biography)
Year
c. 1943  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
15 3/8 x 11 1/4" image 
Signature
in pencil, within image 
Edition Size
proof, edition unstated, presumed small. 
Annotations
 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory Warren's Olde Style wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
DECA102 
Price
$500.00 
Description

Anna Keeney lived to be just forty-seven years old, passing away little more than six months after the end of World War II. Her brief career therefore spanned the most tumultuous moments of the first half of the 20th century, and her art - what little there is available to see - reflected an experimental, energetic, and introspective spirit.

Keeney’s style is indicative of the rising Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States and its role in changing the landscape of wartime and post-war self expression. By the 1940s, direct representation was no longer the only valid form of visual communication. In this untitled abstract lithograph, figures stand before what appears to be a shattered structure with tall windows, not unlike a church or synagogue.

The figure in the foreground holds a Star of David, while the figure to the left also clutches an object, perhaps a Torah scroll or a tome. The overall feeling of the work is somber and her choice of texturization, in which small white spots, like points of light, are scattered throughout like snow or street lamps, lends the piece an ethereal quality.

 
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