Winter+Tree

Date:1982
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 * Title: **Winter Tree**

Artist: **Pat Steir** Born: Newark, New Jersey 1940

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 59 7/8 x 179 5/8 in. (152.1 x 456.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Nancy A. Drysdale and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1996.50A-C || Like a folding screen that can be seen in sections or as a whole, this three-panel painting offers shifting views. Steir associates the urge to paint with a sense of awe and, in this instance, her vantage point moves closer to the tree until it becomes an engulfing field of brushstrokes. She also pays homage to past masters, and was particularly inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's paintings based on Japanese woodcuts.
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Women Artists
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