Alabama+Wall+I

Date: 1985
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.8_1a.jpg?itok=uPfXPAPS width="334" height="296" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/alabama-wall-i-4753"]] || Title: **Alabama Wall I**

 Artist: **William Christenberry** Born: Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1936

Medium: metal and tempera on wood Dimensions: 45 3/8 x 50 1/2 in. (115.3 x 128.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1986.8 || This wall construction is another way Christenberry explores his experience with the Alabama landscape. Carefully snipped pieces of found objects—license plates, advertising signs, corrugated and rusted metal—are quilted together and padded by bright colors that contrast a sense of age with fresh immediacy. The repeated "36" is the numerical code for Hale County, but also doubles as the year of the artist’s birth. Seen in some places with the small embossed heart from "He[art] of Dixie", there is no doubting where the affections of the artist lie.
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Christenberry at the Montgomery MFA Christenberry Biography
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About the Artist SAAM Collections Page
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