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Painting
Eiffel Tower #1
William Congdon, 1912 - 1998
Congdon, William
United States
1912 - 1998
Male
43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (110.5 x 90.2 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1955
1955
1955
1900-2000, Abstract, American art, architecture in art, paintings
Painting
Once a prominent member of the New York School, William Congdon’s name has drifted into obscurity. His youthful wanderlust led him to Italy, France, Mexico, Turkey, Cambodia, and Africa on painting expeditions. Eiffel Tower #1 shows his characteristic use of a jack knife or the edge of a spatula to incise energetic lines into his paint, here suggesting the lacy ironwork of the French icon. In 1959, after years of emotional and creative turmoil, he retreated from public view and spent the last decades of his life as artist-in-residence at a Benedictine monastery near Milan. Shortly after his death, the New York Times wrote that “Most museums store their Congdons with countless other works deemed too marginal to show and too meaningful to sell.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
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1957.3
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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5/22/2002
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11/20/2012
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