ID#:
1996.0072.000001
Description:
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison
Born 1920
Fire Rock, 1981
Oil on canvas
48 x 70 inches
Gift of Safeco Corporation
Although Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (b. 1920) studied with Mark Tobey (1890—1976), she did not pursue his calligraphic style of abstraction. Instead, the artist built up her canvases, which were placed on the floor, with broad strokes and sometimes splattered paint. In Fire Rock (1981), one in a series of oil paintings on this subject, the hot colors and molten quality of the surface represent Adkison's desire to express the "insistent life—force of energy expressed by nature."
Born 1920
Fire Rock, 1981
Oil on canvas
48 x 70 inches
Gift of Safeco Corporation
Although Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (b. 1920) studied with Mark Tobey (1890—1976), she did not pursue his calligraphic style of abstraction. Instead, the artist built up her canvases, which were placed on the floor, with broad strokes and sometimes splattered paint. In Fire Rock (1981), one in a series of oil paintings on this subject, the hot colors and molten quality of the surface represent Adkison's desire to express the "insistent life—force of energy expressed by nature."
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