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Cheryl Before She Left for Maine, 2020

Date2022

MediumMarquetry hybrid

DimensionsOverall: 67 1/4 × 55 inches (170.82 × 139.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number2025.4

On View

Not on view

Collections

Contemporary Art

Terms

American

DescriptionIn this vertically oriented composition, a woman with brown skin sits outdoors on a stairway playing a bright blue guitar. The stairway is covered with patches of green moss. It leads up to a double doorway with glass windows, though only the very bottom portion of the doorway is visible at the top of the composition. A few potted plants and flowers line each side of the stairway. The woman sits in the center of the composition in three-quarters view. She is slightly turned to the right so that both of her legs are visible. She wears a navy blue patterned bandana in her dark brown hair as well as red-framed glasses, a camisole, shorts that are mostly hidden behind the bright teal body of the guitar, and black flip-flop sandals. She looks at her proper left hand on the neck of the guitar as she strums the strings with her proper right hand.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, New York, May 17–June 24, 2023

Provenance

Purchased from the artist through James Cohan Gallery (New York, NY) by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

Published References

Lynne Lieberman, "'Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days' on View at James Cohan." Gotham To Go: Arts and Culture, May 28, 2023. https://gothamtogo.com/alison-elizabeth-taylor-these-days-on-view-at-james-cohan/

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