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Artist |
Harmon, Lily |
Object Name |
Mixed Media |
Title |
Promontory |
Date |
ca. 1970s |
Medium |
Stained rice paper on canvas |
Dimensions |
36 3/4 x 9 in. (93.3 x 22.9 cm) |
Accession Number |
1262.0.0 |
Credit line |
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liebowitz |
About This Work |
Lily Harmon, born Lillian Perelmutter in 1913, attended Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, Académie Colarossi, Paris, France, and the Art Students League in New York. Harmon worked in diverse media ranging from painting and printmaking to relief sculptures and assemblages. Harmon was married five times, most notably to the collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn in 1947. They divorced in 1956 and she continued to use the surname of her first husband, Sidney Harmon. Romantic Landscape (1964) (on view on Wall I) is a testament to Harmon's skill as a graphic artist. The delicate lines and intricate patterns of branches around the silhouetted figure create a sense of claustrophobia. Promontory (ca. 1960s)-referring to a land mass that juts out into a body of water-is a mixed media work that explores shape and texture through layering rice paper on top of canvas, materials Harmon became interested in around this time. Harmon's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, and The Jewish Museum, New York, New York, among others. In 1982, the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, organized a fifty-year traveling retrospective of Harmon's work. Unlisted: Underappreciated Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, May 28-October 2, 2022, exhibition label. |
Legal Status |
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