Lonesome
Artist
Leonard Pryor
(American, 1924 - 2015)
Date1950
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/8 × 26 inches (76.52 × 66.04 cm)
Framed: 36 3/8 × 32 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (92.39 × 81.92 × 4.45 cm)
Framed: 36 3/8 × 32 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (92.39 × 81.92 × 4.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Reneé Pryor Newton and Craig Pryor in loving memory of their parents Leonard and Maxine Pryor
Object number2022.8.3
SignedOff-white paint, lower right corner: “PRYOR, L. / -49-“
On View
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DescriptionA solitary male figure sits in three quarters view leaning against a dark presumably wooden wall at the right of this vertically oriented composition. The man wears blue jeans and has a white handkerchief peeking out of his back pocket. He is nude from the waist up and holds a foreshortened acoustic guitar, its weight centering on the figure’s proper right thigh. The landscape in which he is situated is barren and desolate, with a patch of brown grass in the middleground near the composition’s left edge. The sky above the man is a blue grey hue with streaks of long, wispy, white clouds. The artist’s signature in white paint is located at the lower right corner of the composition.ProvenanceThe artist, Kansas City, Missouri, 2015;
Renee Newton and Craig Pryor, Kansas City, Missouri, 2022;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2022.
Copyright© Renée Pryor Newton and Craig Pryor
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