Artist

Wynn Chamberlain

born Minneapolis, MN 1927-died New Delhi, India 2014
Also known as
  • Elwyn Chamberlain
Born
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Died
New Delhi, India
Biography

Wynn Chamberlain received an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1950 and had his first solo exhibition in Milwaukee the following year. Over the next ten years, Chamberlain painted highly detailed landscapes and interior scenes, as well as allegories based on the compositional formats of northern Renaissance painting. The allegories are modern statements on such portentous themes as the aftermath of war, while the landscapes and interiors, which frequently show isolated figures, deal with the human condition in more personal terms. In the 1960s Chamberlain turned from representational subjects to symbolic, gestural abstractions.

Virginia M. Mecklenburg Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987)

Works by this artist (8 items)

Sally Mann, Jessie at 5, 1987, platinum print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1988.31.3, © 1987, Sally Mann
Jessie at 5
Date1987
platinum print
Not on view
Sally Mann, Tobacco Spit, 1987, platinum print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1988.31.2, © 1987, Sally Mann
Tobacco Spit
Date1987
platinum print
Not on view
Calakmul
Date1999
chromogenic print
Not on view
Calakmul
Date1999
chromogenic print
Not on view