The Barricade

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: Wynn Chamberlain
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: tempera
Mediums Description: egg tempera on fiberboard
Classifications: Painting
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