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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 80 W x 42 H x 0.5 D in
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This is an original acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas by American artist Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO). It is a large horizontal format, 42" high by 80" wide. It was created in 2002 and ended up the first-runner up for a new work for permanent display in the Colorado State Capitol. It is entitled “The Meadow” and originally included images of the Colorado state flower (columbine) and state bird (lark bunting). On losing out, the artist reworked the piece into its current abstracted, surrealist imagery. The painting begins with the underlying landscape of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, shown with blue sky and clouds, snow on the mountains with green lower altitude hills in front. Across the bottom two-thirds is an abstracted field of metallic and shiny enamel drip painting in yellow, golds and blues. The original two birds perched on branch ends are now within gold triangles. A third and much larger triangular shape juts up in the center, complete with trompe l’oiel shadowing. Shiny black enamel drip painting embellishes the bottom of the work. The painting is in pristine condition and signed front lower side left by the artist. Included with the purchase is a signed and numbered copy of the limited edition (150 copies), 212 page catalogue of the artist’s 2015 retrospective at the Museo de las Americas in which this work was prominently featured entitled “A Road Well Traveled” (available on Amazon).
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:80 W x 42 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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Born 1948, Denver, CO. Saatchi site presence maintained by Young's Fine Art. Extensive website at delacruzarts.com. "De La Cruz's mastery of formal and experimental techniques reflects a career dedicated to creative probing and discipline. It is rare indeed to come into contact with an artist who so successfully ranges from abstraction to surrealism in single canvases. Themes of personal identity and interpersonal responsiveness are layered into his work, allowing the viewer to share in the artist's process of questioning the relationships of his subjects to the world. The insights that develop in his works are universal in their ability to connect the reflective with the informative." Joaquin Alvarado Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO) was listed among the three dozen most influential regional artists of the twentieth century in a Denver Post survey of regional curators (2001). His was the only Spanish surname. At the first International Latino Art Auction held in Phoenix, AZ in conjunction with Sotheby's (2003), De La Cruz proved the best selling artist of the auction and drew the highest auction price for a single work. The Denver Art Museum's first purchase of a living Hispanic's work for its permanent collection was a De La Cruz. Years later, he was the only artist considered when that same museum wanted to commission a contemporary digital work commemorating the opening of its new Libeskind Building (2007). De La Cruz was the recipient of back-to-back artist in residency grants from Colorado in his early career and received as well their very last painting fellowship in 2000. For a spell in 2006, works of De La Cruz were included in three unrelated art museum exhibits in Denver (Denver Art Museum, El Museo and the Mizel). Other honors include award of Best Art Event of the Year by Westword Magazine and appointment to Denver's Commission on Arts and Culture. De La Cruz currently splits his time between his studio in the Santa Fe District in Denver and his new studio in the Little River District of Miami.
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