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  4. Chameleon

Gillian Carnegie

British, born 1971

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Chameleon, 2002

Artwork Details

Materials

oil on canvas

Measurements

support: 54 x 68 inches (137.16 x 172.72 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Lynn and Craig Jacobson, 2020

Accession ID

2020:7.1

Object Classifications:

Paintings

Work Type:

Oil painting

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Collection Highlights

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  • Ocean Park No. 66, 1973

    Richard Diebenkorn

    Ocean Park No. 66
  • Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash), 1912

    Giacomo Balla

    Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash)
  • Nomad, 1963

    James Rosenquist

    What appears to be a collage of unrelated images from advertisements and everyday photographs fills the surface of this large-scale horizontally oriented painting. A massive bowl of spaghetti and meatballs in the bottom right, a gray picnic table slightly above center, and three ballerina legs paired with the words NEW and Oxy at bottom left. A paint-splatted plastic bag tied at the bottom is suspended from the top-left corner of the canvas; a pile of paint-splattered wood scraps lies on the floor below.
  • Le Feu d'artifice (Fireworks), 1887

    James Ensor

    Le Feu d'artifice (Fireworks)
  • The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image, 1938

    Salvador Dalí

    The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image
  • Women of Tehuantepec, 1939

    Rufino Tamayo

    Two solemn-looking women, one carrying a basket of fruit on her head, stand in center of this colorful, horizontally oriented canvas. Behind them and to the left are three large containers filled with tropical fruit, some of which is also scattered on the ground. Behind them and to the right are two more women walking toward a long, low building in the background. A young boy in the right corner extends with his left hand a bunch of flowers toward the two central women.
  • Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter), 1875-1876

    Claude Monet

    This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow.
  • Le Peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter), 1903

    Edouard Vuillard

    Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes.
  • George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 1957

    Joan Mitchell

    Large, energetic brushstrokes in green, brown, black, red, blue, and white cover portions of this abstract painting’s white background. These marks are primarily concentrated in two areas: in the top half of the canvas, especially in the center, and on its lower edge, especially in the center and toward the right corner.

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