Broken Nets
Date1934
Artist
Philip N. Yates
American framemaker and painter, 1884/5–after 1951
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 36 1/4 in. (76.2 x 92.1 cm)
frame: 34 5/8 × 40 3/4 in. (87.9 × 103.5 cm)
frame: 34 5/8 × 40 3/4 in. (87.9 × 103.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 3rd Regional District of the P.W.A.P., 1934
Object number1934-1
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextAustralian-born Philip N. Yates was a favored frame maker for Pennsylvania Modernists associated with Bucks County artist colonies. Broken Nets features the muscular bodies performing dynamic labor that hallmarks much of the art of the 1930s, in a foreboding composition that pits man against nature.
