1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)between 1950 and 1955
Monument, 1988
- Gilda Snowden, American, 1954 - 2014
Encaustic on wood with objects
- Overall: 76 × 81 × 8 inches (193 × 205.7 × 20.3 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin, Anne and Florence Kaufman Memorial Trust
1990.300
On View
- African American N290
Department
African American Art
Details
A painter who also worked with constructions and found objects, Snowden combined the formal issues of surface, texture, and geometric shape with personal history, emotion, and intuition. The death of both of her parents in 1987 led her to produce a series of assemblages, of which “Monument” is the last, dedicated to their memory. Covered with encaustic, a waxy medium that suggests age, these works are charged with personal symbolism that turns them into a “repository of memories.”
Courtesy of Gilda Snowden Contact: Gilda Snowden 2964 E. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48207
Gilda Snowden, Monument, 1988, encaustic on wood with objects. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin, Anne and Florence Kaufman Memorial Trust, 1990.300.