Sean Scully Photography
American, b. 1945
Born 1945, Dublin, Ireland; lives in New York City
Born in Ireland in 1945, Sean Scully was raised and educated in London. In 1975, he moved to New York where he was immediately influenced by the geometric and color field painters working in that city: Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and, especially, Mark Rothko. Abandoning the figurative work he was pursuing at the time, Scully began working with the deliberately reduced set of motifs that have occupied him for the last twenty years.
Scully gathers his motifs from everyday experience; he looks at doors, windows, road maps, and uses photography “as a means of defining the parameters of his own visual world.” He does not depict the world but finds in the world visual experiences that correspond to his artistic mission. Specifically, Scully seeks to portray the richness of life through the relationships between the colors of his characteristically dark and understated palette. The reduction of formal elements to stripes and squares allows the color relationships to be of utmost importance. In the indefinite transition zones between colors, Scully exposes the “mystery of ambivalence and uncertainty” that permeates the human experience.
Sean Scully is one of the most important contemporary artists working today, and his work can be seen in museums around the world including the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.to
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Artist: Sean Scully
A Pair of origin Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
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Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
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Sean Scully with Stone Light, Photograph (Hand Signed by Sean Scully), Framed
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully (Hand Signed by Sean Scully)
Color photograph on paper, ca. 1993
This marvelous photograph is boldly signed in blue ink by Sean Scully on the front
The photographer is no...
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1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Photography
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An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
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Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
A Set of Five Original Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
A group of five original C-Prints from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. Each work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
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Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
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