ID#:
2010.0001.000001
Description:
Yvonne Twining Humber
1907 — 2004
Ruin, ca. 1949
Oil on Masonite
24 x 28 inches
Gift of David F. Martin and Dominic A. Zambito in memory of Yvonne Twining Humber
In her painting Ruin, Yvonne Twining Humber shares the same magic—realist spirit as the New York artist Peter Blume (1906—1992). Humber depicts a brick arcade constructed from the bedrock of red clay cliffs. The remnants of a lost civilization, consumed by nature's cycle of reclamation, is a theme extending back to Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836). Humber provides the viewer with an intimate look at the futility of human pursuits, a weighty subject that contrasts with her well—known genre paintings. The artist also created a series of visionary landscapes made from collaged paper that reference abstract underwater, mountain, and cosmic motifs. Another of her legacies is the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, given to women artists over sixty years of age, which she endowed before her death in 2004.
1907 — 2004
Ruin, ca. 1949
Oil on Masonite
24 x 28 inches
Gift of David F. Martin and Dominic A. Zambito in memory of Yvonne Twining Humber
In her painting Ruin, Yvonne Twining Humber shares the same magic—realist spirit as the New York artist Peter Blume (1906—1992). Humber depicts a brick arcade constructed from the bedrock of red clay cliffs. The remnants of a lost civilization, consumed by nature's cycle of reclamation, is a theme extending back to Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836). Humber provides the viewer with an intimate look at the futility of human pursuits, a weighty subject that contrasts with her well—known genre paintings. The artist also created a series of visionary landscapes made from collaged paper that reference abstract underwater, mountain, and cosmic motifs. Another of her legacies is the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, given to women artists over sixty years of age, which she endowed before her death in 2004.
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