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Artist |
Delabano, Barney |
Caption |
Acoma, New Mexico |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Purchased with funds donated by members of the Museum's Board of Trustees, and the 2005 Collectors' Circle in memory of Robert W. Pickens 2005.05 |
Culture |
American |
Date |
1981-1995 |
Description |
Regionalist oil painting of the cathedral and nun house in Acoma, New Mexico. This is a side and front profile of two stone, geometric buildings. The foundations are raised and the building to the right (likely the nun house) has flared pillars. The nun house has blue doors and bright pink or red railing on the second floor. There is only a second floor on the right half of the nun house. The cathedral to the left of the nun house are crosses atop its two large and rectangular steeples. The ground beneath is also stone as the buildings are. There is a red-orange hill or small mountain past the cathedral. The sky is a cyan blue with two long clouds, the length varying in thickness. There is also a dark, oval-like mass in the sky behind the smokey clouds. Barney Delabano (1926-1997) grew up in a house where there wasn’t any art. His first exposure was the Saturday Evening Post and his high school art teacher. Besides being an artist and a family man, he was the Curator of Installation at the Dallas Musuem of Art for 33 years. Despite his becoming very well known for his innovative musuem installations he continued to paint. Delabano loved to paint simple things like paper sacks, and flowers, fruit, and boards C-clamped to stools with a swath of brocade fabric in the background. He could take all these casual objects and compose them together beautifully, concisely and with an easy natural flair. |
Dimensions |
H-26.83 L-31.83 inches |
Medium |
Oil/Masonite |
Material |
Masonite |
Catalog Number |
2005.05 |
Title |
Acoma New Mexico |