Kennet

Artist Titus Kaphar (American, born 1976)

Date2009

MediumOil on canvas, thread, and wood structure

DimensionsOverall: 60 × 48 × 1 1/2 inches (152.4 × 121.92 × 3.81 cm)

Credit LineGift of Craig and Lynn Jacobson

Object number2025.85.2

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DescriptionThis is a vertically oriented artwork consisting of a light brown wooden frame, and a crumpled-up painting adhered to the frame but only filling about half of the space within the frame. The painting appears to depict a seated man wearing a black blazer, perhaps a red scarf, and his left side is towards the viewer. He is turning his head to the left to gaze at the viewer. He has long, dark hair. The background is dark grey and dark blue, and the chair the man sits on appears to be brass, and there appears to be a dark wooden railing behind him. There appears to be a face which is slightly abstracted in the lower proper left side of the canvas. The proper right side of the canvas has a long, dark brown shape running nearly the entire length of the canvas, and the lower proper right side of the canvas is black; the lower proper left side of the canvas is dark red.

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