Ian Hornak
Waiting for the Barbarians, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
1985

Name: Waiting for the Barbarians, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
Brand: Ian Hornak
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About the Item

Original acrylic painting on Masonite with artist’s painted wood frame, 1985. Size: 37 x 31 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; titled, and double signed and dated, verso. Provenance: Armstrong Gallery (57th Street), New York, NY; Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: This painting is from a series of paintings, depicting the apocalypse, created by Ian Hornak at the suggestion of his friend, painter Jimmy Ernst (1920-1984), son of surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), and stepson of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). The series was realized the year after Jimmy Ernst's death for a 1985 Hornak solo exhibition at the Armstrong Gallery on West 57th Street in New York, prearranged by Ernst. This painting incorporates a “painted frame” by Ian Hornak whereby the artist expands the image of the primary panel onto the frame itself. Hornak is regarded as the innovator of this technique in art history. IAN HORNAK (January 9, 1944 – December 9, 2002) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker. Described by The New York Times as being, “right at the top of romantically descriptive painters today,” Hornak was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements. Hornak's personal papers and effects entered into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in 2007. His artwork is owned by the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art; the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History; the Library of Congress; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art; the Allen Memorial Art Museum; the Austin Museum of Art; the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute; the Canton Museum of Art; the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; the Detroit Historical Museum; the Flint Institute of Arts; the Forest Lawn Museum; Galleria Internazionale; The George Washington University Art Galleries; Guild Hall; the Children's Hospital Boston (Harvard Medical School affiliate); the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction; the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages; the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library; the National Hellenic Museum; the Ringling College of Art and Design; the Rockford Art Museum; the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; the Florida State Capital; St. Mary's University, Texas; The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland; the University of Texas at San Antonio; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts; and Wayne State University. In 2012, an additional portion of Hornak's papers and personal effects entered the permanent collection of Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. In legacy, Hornak is remembered as having been a friend of Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Robert Indiana, Les Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers, Kenneth Noland, Fairfield Porter, Lowell Nesbitt, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Claes Oldenburg; and defined as one of founding artists of the Photorealist movements along with Richard Estes, Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, Tom Blackwell, John Salt, Audrey Flack, and Ron Kleemann.

Creator:

Ian Hornak (1944 - 2002, American)

Creation Year:

1985

Dimensions:

Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Diameter: 31 in (78.74 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic,Masonite,Panel

Movement & Style:

Photorealist

Period:

1980-1989