Lucy Baker Mixed Media Painting "Yellow Moon"

Item Details

Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955)
Yellow Moon
Acrylic, panspectra, hologrammed glitter, gels, and fluorescent paint on canvas
Signed to the lower left
Inscribed to the verso

A mixed media painting on canvas titled Yellow Moon by listed artist Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955). The work is comprised of free-form pools and thick undulating delineations of acrylic pigments suspended as if still in motion. The composition is accented with glitter and glass spheres providing bursts of vibrancy to a chaotic dark abyss. The work is signed to the lower left. To the verso, the artist’s signature and title are inscribed. The piece is presented unframed.

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. Lucy has been the key figure for an entire movement of brilliant artists, the New New Painters, whom she has led both stylistically and in the use of the new acrylic paints and gels.

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

Condition

- minor wear throughout the edges of painting; accretions and stains throughout the composition.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC603-077