ID#:
2007.0115.000009
Description:
Viola Patterson
1898 — 1984
Untitled, 1954
Oil on canvas board
18 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
Gift of Joan Wahlman
An understated narrative can be gleaned from Untitled (1954), a painting by Viola Patterson that offers a quiet peek into a veranda where complex patterns dominate the image of a mother and child resting. The artist weaves together a Parisian—style lushness à la Edouard Vuillard (1868—1940), who similarly merged interior and exterior spaces. Patterson's art flourished as she interpreted the modern artworks she experienced during her European travels and while teaching at the University of Washington's art department. Her marriage to Ambrose Patterson, her art professor, who exhibited with the fauvists in Paris in 1905, and her friendship with Walter Isaacs, chair of the art department, encouraged the artist's personal style. In her later works, she embraced a more nonobjective abstraction by painting bold gestural works in a similarly restricted palette.
1898 — 1984
Untitled, 1954
Oil on canvas board
18 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
Gift of Joan Wahlman
An understated narrative can be gleaned from Untitled (1954), a painting by Viola Patterson that offers a quiet peek into a veranda where complex patterns dominate the image of a mother and child resting. The artist weaves together a Parisian—style lushness à la Edouard Vuillard (1868—1940), who similarly merged interior and exterior spaces. Patterson's art flourished as she interpreted the modern artworks she experienced during her European travels and while teaching at the University of Washington's art department. Her marriage to Ambrose Patterson, her art professor, who exhibited with the fauvists in Paris in 1905, and her friendship with Walter Isaacs, chair of the art department, encouraged the artist's personal style. In her later works, she embraced a more nonobjective abstraction by painting bold gestural works in a similarly restricted palette.
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