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Marion McClanahan, S/N Lithograph,1979, Boat #2100007

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Marion McClanahan, S/N Lithograph,1979, Boat #2100007
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Artist: McClanahan, Marion

Title: Dry Dock

Year: 1979

Medium: Lithograph

Edition: 300

Paper Size: 30" x 39"






MARION McCLANAHAN





Marion McClanahan's life has been one of contrast, the range of dramatic influences that have passed through her life have invested her personality with a mature grace. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma she travelled extensively throughout the Southwest and through North America and Europe with her family. Her paintings recall many of her early impressions of Michigan, Kentucky and Paris.



The subjects she chooses are as varied as her life. They are ordinary enough scenes to begin with-a view from the window of her Paris studio, or a commonplace motel on Cape Cod; shacks; beaches; models casually posed in a studio. She comes to them, says Knox Martin, with "elegance, grace, sensitivity, giving to the most insignificant things a local habitation and a name. There are no insignificant subjects-all is Wonder."



The poet Barbara Guest sees all the objects in these paintings bathed in an air which is not simply the air we breathe but the fruit of a free imagination. "These scenes are the work of an eye full of wonders."



There is nothing dreamy or vague about this eye. It is sharp and clear and usually capable of surprises. She filters light and substance into poetically seen experiences. The paintings appear refreshingly relaxed. McClanahan's artistic approach confirms a tree flowing ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:39</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Marion McClanahan, S/N Lithograph,1979, Boat</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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