Kenneth M. Adams, Evening, ca. 1950-1960, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 1⁄4 in. (61.0 x 76.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb, 1991.205.2
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Evening
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1950-1960
- Location
- Dimensions
- 24 x 30 1⁄4 in. (61.0 x 76.9 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Arvin Gottlieb
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Architecture Interior — detail — window
- Portrait female — Ascensione, Dona — elderly
- Allegory — life — old age
- Landscape — time — evening
- Object Number
- 1991.205.2
Artwork Description
Kenneth Adams posed an elderly woman before a window that looks out on a darkening day. Her wrinkled features resemble the weathered land behind her, and her snowy head wrap and blue blouse evoke clouds in a twilight sky. The allegorical title emphasizes the association between the “native” and her environment, an idea that many Anglo painters in the Southwest fostered in their art.