NORTHWEST WOMEN ARTISTS : 1880 — 2010
ID#:
2010.0050.000001
Description:
Elizabeth Sandvig
Born 1937
Peaceable Kingdom I, 2003
Oil on Canvas
38 x 45 inches
Gift of the artist and Francine Sedars Gallery

Elizabeth Sandvig, now known widely as a painter, experimented with an array of materials to create innovative sculptures in the 1970s. Peaceable Kingdom I (2003) interprets the work of Edward Hicks (1780—1849), a Quaker minister who painted a series with the same name. Synthesizing Hicks's folklike style with a Matissean joie de vivre to emphasize bright colors and simplified lines, the artist creates a painting that embodies nature's harmony.

According to Sandvig: "For the first half of my career, my work dealt with the transitory and fragile qualities of nature. Using materials that emphasized a sense of layered transparency, I attempted to create a shifting visual energy effect by light and position. When my work threatened to disappear into fragility, I turned to drawing vigorously with oil sticks and to painting."

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