High Watermark on the Teepees

© Larry Holmes. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or pub…
© Larry Holmes
High Watermark on the Teepees
© Larry Holmes. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

High Watermark on the Teepees

Date1973
Artist (American painter, 1942–2022)
MediumAcrylic on shaped canvas
Dimensions72 × 72 × 4 in. (182.9 × 182.9 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist, 2014
Object number2014-5
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextFrom 1973–2004, Larry Holmes taught generations of artists at the University of Delaware. The bright, centrally-oriented composition of High Watermark on the Teepees is representative of Holmes’ constructed relief paintings from the early 1970s. Assembled from plywood substructures and covered with stretched canvas, the forms recall experimentations associated with 1960s Minimalism and hard-edge painting. Holmes activates his abstract constructions with a seductive, undulating surface that calls into play the artist’s interest in exploring the concept of space in painting.
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