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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
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Louise Lawler (American, b. 1947)
Pollock and Tureen, 1984
Silver dye bleach print; 28 x 39 in. (71.1 x 99.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000 (2000.434)
© Louise A. Lawler
Image Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures
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Lawler is a spy in the house of art, casting sidelong glances at modernist masterpieces as they wend their way from the pristine white cubes of galleries and the carpeted walls of auction houses to museum storerooms, corporate boardrooms, and cloistered private homes around the world. The artist's greatest coup came in 1984, when she was granted full access to the Connecticut home of twentieth-century collectors Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. As sometimes happens in photography, the artist serendipitously discovered the crux of her entire project in one place. Working in available light with a 35mm camera, she found treasures everywhere she looked, such as this decorator's duet between the tortured gestural slashes of a late Jackson Pollock and the filigree of a soup bowl.
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