Candle
Date1976
Artist
Joe Zucker
(American painter, born 1941)
MediumCotton, Rhoplex resin ™, and acrylic on canvas stretched over plywood
Dimensions18 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (47 × 47 × 3.8 cm)
diameter: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
diameter: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-66
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextJoe Zucker's paintings focus on the tension between surface and image. To create the figure of the burning candle, the artist first soaked canvas strips in Rhoplex™, an acrylic medium, which he then arranged on the round canvas. The highly textured image is easier to see from a distance. 
