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Marvin CherneyMarvin Cherney Portrait "Seated Girl" Oil on Canvas1958
1958
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"Seated Girl" is an oil on canvas portrait of an artist who was cut down in his prime and largely forgotten until recently. Marvin Cherney's paintings are solemn but unsophisticated in his subjects. He deploys a more limited range of greyed colors in order to emotionalize his subject and heighten the mood of their isolation. This painting was one of the thirteen that was exhibited at Garelick's Gallery in Detroit from January 8th through January 21st in 1961. The painting is 34.75 x 22.5 inches unframed.
Marvin Cherney was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1925. He attended the Maryland Institute of Art and the School for Art Studies in New York. After his graduation he began to travel around Europe before returnig to New York.
Cherney won 2 Tiffany Awards and Brooklyn Museum Prize and his work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Audubon Artists, University of Nebraska, Silvermine Artists Guild, Butler Art Institute, Ringling Museum, Howard University, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Mary Washington College, Whitney Museum of American Art, and at the Detroit Institute of Art.
Marvin Cherney died relatively young at the age of 41 in 1967 after a long illness.
- Creator:Marvin Cherney (1925-1967, American)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 44.75 in (113.67 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Detroit, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128618656152
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