Monument

1988

Gilda Snowden American, 1954 - 2014

On View

African American, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

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.”

Title Monument

Artwork Date 1988

Artist Gilda Snowden

Life Dates 1954 - 2014

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Encaustic on wood with objects

Dimensions Overall: 76 × 81 × 8 inches (193 × 205.7 × 20.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department African American Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin, Anne and Florence Kaufman Memorial Trust

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1990.300

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1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)between 1950 and 1955

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Courtesy of Gilda Snowden

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.