Foot Landscape
A prolific artist and sometimes writer, Brainard was associated with the New York School, a community of poets and artists who congregated and often collaborated in downtown Manhattan in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1960s, unable to afford paint and canvas, he instead transformed ordinary objects and ephemera collected from his Lower East Side neighborhood into assemblages and collages. Throughout the next decade, he employed this modest yet sensual approach to materials to produce hundreds of lush multimedia works on paper, including intricate paper cutouts and minuscule shaped drawings. In their depiction of everyday things—garden flowers, the torso of a friend or lover, a can of sardines, a crumpled pair of underpants— these works capture with poignancy and wit the observed snippets that compose life.
Artwork Details
- Title: Foot Landscape
- Artist: Joe Brainard (American, Salem, Arkansas 1942–1994 New York)
- Date: 1975
- Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: 5 15/16 in. × 4 in. (15.1 × 10.1 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Posthorn, in memory of the artist, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.404.14
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Joe Brainard
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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