1954
oil
paperboard
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1954 oil by Theora Hamblett, a American Folk Art work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting shows four panels of a nighttime forest. In each, a lone figure in an orange jumpsuit stands under a bright, glowing moon. Tall trees frame the scene, and the ground is dark and uneven. The figure’s shadow stretches long behind them, while the sky above looks almost too bright. The orange jumpsuit stands out against the dark greens and blues, making the person look small in the big landscape. The moon in every panel glows the same, even though the trees and shadows change slightly. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how artists use light and dark like this.
Theora Hamblett was an American painter, one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence. Hamblett's paintings can be divided into three categories: memory paintings, dream paintings, and landscape paintings.
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