
Artwork Details
- Title
- Green Landscape
- Artist
- Date
- 1971
- Location
- Dimensions
- 9 5⁄8 x 12 in. (24.6 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Mediums Description
- oil and acrylic on paper collage mounted on wood
- Keywords
- Landscape
- Landscape — farm
- Landscape — garden
- Animal — bird — chicken
- Animal — pig
- Object Number
- 1986.6.35
Artwork Description
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
In Green Landscape, Gregory Gillespie combined paint with collage, scratching or covering the surface of the paper so that it is difficult to tell where the painting ends and the collage begins. He never planned a piece before he started, preferring instead to let the imagery and ideas unfold as he worked. The gaudy blue sky, bright patchwork fields, and cartoonlike creature conjure a vivid landscape that appears to be the product of a dream.
“I never paint outside. I’ve got a beautiful landscape right outside my studio. Sometimes I’ll work from photos of it, but mucking around in real life is much too daunting for me.” “Interview with Gregory Gillespie,” in A Unique American Vision, Exhibition Catalogue, Georgia Museum of Art, 1999