The Barricade

Wynn Chamberlain, The Barricade, 1958, egg tempera on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.15, © 1958, Wynn Chamberlain
Wynn Chamberlain, The Barricade, 1958, egg tempera on fiberboard, 25 x 32 1⁄8 in. (63.4 x 81.6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.15, © 1958, Wynn Chamberlain

Artwork Details

Title
The Barricade
Artist
Date
1958
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
25 x 32 1⁄8 in. (63.4 x 81.6 cm.)
Copyright
© 1958, Wynn Chamberlain
Credit Line
Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
Mediums
Mediums Description
egg tempera on fiberboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape
  • Architecture Exterior — detail — fence
  • Architecture Exterior — domestic — house
  • Equestrian
Object Number
1986.6.15
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1986.6.15

Artwork Description

Collector Sara Roby believed that the most effective way to encourage the “creation and appreciation of the visual arts” in the United States was to acquire the works of living artists and exhibit them to the public, so she set up a Foundation. The Sara Roby Foundation purchased The Barricade directly from the artist the year it was painted and included it in the first major show of the its collection, held in 1959 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.


Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014

Works by this artist (6 items)

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ADÁL, Un Momento Retardado, ca. 1973, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1, © 1973, ADAL
Un Momento Retardado
Artist
Dateca. 1973
gelatin silver print
Not on view
ADÁL, West Side Story Upside Down, Backwards, Sideways and Out of Focus (La Maleta de Futriaco Martínez), 2002, suitcase, flat-screen LCD monitor, single-channel digital video, color, sound; 12:51 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2013.20A-B, © 2002, ADÁL
West Side Story Upside Down, Backwards, Sideways and Out of…
Artist
Date2002
suitcase, flat-screen LCD monitor, single-channel digital video, color, sound; 12:51 minutes
Not on view
ADÁL, El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico: Koki Kiki, 1994, issued 2005, lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2013.19.3, © 2012, ADÁL
El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico…
Artist
Date1994, issued 2005
lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet
Not on view
ADÁL, El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico: Adál Maldonado, 1994, lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2013.19.1, © 2012, ADÁL
El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico…
Artist
Date1994
lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet
Not on view

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