Many of you know of my arts grant writing experience at Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland, Ohio...some of you do not. One of my big projects during the three years I worked at that Center (really a huge theater complex in the heart of the old part of Cleveland) was raising more than $200,000 from Federal and Private sources to restore "The Four Continents" murals by the great American artist James Daugherty. The murals I helped to restore were one of the artist's great works from the 1920s. James Daugherty went on to become an abstract painter working on smaller canvases later in his career. I decided for my final project in my Fullerton College art class to paint one of his late abstractions. I found this one on the internet and and do not know the exact title of the work, who owns it or what year it was painted. I am working on an 8x10 of the piece in the flat wash watercolor style. I'm fairly certain that the original is an oil...just knowing what I know about Daugherty. If anyone knows a bit more about this painting - the year painted, the title, the owner, etc. I would love to know. I really know so much about this artist at this point in my life that I have a bit of a love affair with his work and think if I was to pursue a PhD in Art History...which I do not plan to do...this is the artist who I would make the focus of my dissertation. He is a very popular artist on the East Coast...especially in Manhattan...but is less well-known on the West Coast.
2 comments:
That's amazing. I can't see any difference at all except your's is brighter.
Joan
The version that I did is Watercolor...the Daugherty is Oil Pastel...I think. In the original they would be very different.
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