Anne Arnold
American, 1925-2014
Anne Arnold (American, 1925–2014). Charlie, 1969. Acrylic on canvas over wood, 49 x 23 x 27 inches (124.5 x 58.4 x 68.6 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1970 (K1970:15). © 1969 Anne Arnold, courtesy of Alexandre Gallery, New York
Charlie, 1969
Artwork Details
Materials
acrylic on canvas over wood
Measurements
overall: 49 x 23 x 27 inches (124.46 x 58.42 x 68.58 cm)
Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1970
Accession ID
K1970:15
Anne Arnold began making sculptures in the mid-1950s, when Abstract Expressionism still had a strong hold on the American art scene. Her works depicting animals and people are made from a diverse array of materials, such as bronze, clay, wood, and fabric soaked in resin. Autobiographical references permeate many of Arnold’s sculptures, including her works featuring life-size, or larger, domestic animals. Charlie, a black-and-white cat, and Charlotte, a pudgy pig, are an unlikely, yet compatible, duo—humorous and most certainly unexpected. Arnold intuitively captured the quirky nature of her subjects. Here, the stretched-out leanness of a cat, perhaps as it peeks its head over the sill of a window, and the seemingly majestic, but humble, presence of a pig represent characteristics we may recognize in one another.
Label from Menagerie: Animals on View, March 11–June 4, 2017
