Artwork Details
- Title
- Connecticut Autumn
- Artist
- Date
- 1937
- Location
- Dimensions
- 23 7⁄8 x 30 in. (60.5 x 76.3 cm)
- Credit Line
- Transfer from General Services Administration
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on fiberboard
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Architecture — industry
- Monument — gravestone
- Landscape — season — autumn
- Architecture — industry — foundry
- Landscape — Connecticut
- Recreation — sport and play — kite flying
- Figure male — child — full length
- New Deal — Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project — New York City
- Object Number
- 1971.447.35
Artwork Description
The overcast sky, neglected buildings, and fallen monuments in Connecticut Autumn create an eerie landscape that evokes the poverty and despair of the 1930s. The young boy flying a kite appears full of hope and innocence, but a closer look reveals that his kite string crosses the power lines. The statue of an angel underscores the imminent tragedy, as he beckons to the boy from the monument yard (Baker, O. Louis Guglielmi, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1980).