ID#:
1997.0061.000001
Description:
Susan Bennerstrom
Born 1949
Haystacks in Balkan Landscape, 1987
Pastel
33 3/4 x 43 3/4 inches
Gift of Richard Hammond
In Haystacks in Balkan Landscape, Susan Bennerstrom portrays trees in the more pastoral setting of the European countryside. Her eye for drama and the effects of light and shadow cast the trees as silhouettes in a fleeting atmospheric moment. According to the artist, "This transformative power of light is what my work is about.... What we normally perceive as ordinary and familiar can be brooding and unnerving, or else transcendentally sublime."
Born 1949
Haystacks in Balkan Landscape, 1987
Pastel
33 3/4 x 43 3/4 inches
Gift of Richard Hammond
In Haystacks in Balkan Landscape, Susan Bennerstrom portrays trees in the more pastoral setting of the European countryside. Her eye for drama and the effects of light and shadow cast the trees as silhouettes in a fleeting atmospheric moment. According to the artist, "This transformative power of light is what my work is about.... What we normally perceive as ordinary and familiar can be brooding and unnerving, or else transcendentally sublime."
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