Lucy Baker Acrylic Painting on Canvas "White and Black"
Item Details
Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955)
White and Black, 1981
acrylic on canvas
inscribed to the verso; Lucy Baker 1981/ White and Black
42′ × 54′
Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters
An acrylic painting on canvas by Lucy Baker, executed in 1981. Thick, heavy globs of acrylic gel pool next to one another on a ground of stark white. The subtle color is laid intently in a process style of painting inspired by Jackson Pollock. Drips are calculated and laid slowly, in sessions of contemplation.
Lucy was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1955. She received her B.A Fine Arts at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, 1975 and her Certificate of Welding at Platt Tech. in Milford, Connecticut, 1977. She attended the Emma Lake workshop in 1980 as a guest of Kenworth Moffett. Member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978.
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Item #
17DCC195-443