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Village Scene, Anticoli
1931 - 193420th century
40 7/8 in. x 40 5/8 in. (103.82 cm x 103.19 cm)
Maurice Sterne, American, (1877–1957)
Object Type:
Paintings
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, gift of William Benton, Class of 1921, Trustee 1948-1961
Accession Number:
1997.263
Village Scene, Anticoli, painted in 1927, depicts the small town of Anticoli-Corrado in Italy where Sterne lived several times. He said that he painted this work because he simply looked out his window, noticed that there was a performance occurring, and he decided to paint it. Sterne said, "It is not what one paints but how. It is not how one feels but what. This as I see and feel it is important."
Village Scene, Anticoli was given to Carleton College by William Benton, alum and former trustee of the College. This painting is one of ten paintings in the College Collection from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting.
Village Scene, Anticoli was given to Carleton College by William Benton, alum and former trustee of the College. This painting is one of ten paintings in the College Collection from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting.
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- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- canvas - Closely woven textile made in various weights, usually of flax, hemp, jute, or cotton, used especially for sails, tarpaulins, awnings, upholstery, and as a support for oil painting. Also used for a latticelike mesh made of similar material, used as a needlepoint foundation.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- oil (substance) - General term for a wide variety of viscous liquids (or easily liquefiable on warming) that are both combustible and immiscible in water. The character of oils may be mineral (e.g., paraffin), vegetable (e.g., linseed), animal (e.g., fish), essential (e.g., turpentine), or edible (e.g., olive).
- oil painting (technique) - The art or practice of producing creative works in oil paint, which is pigment suspended in vegetal drying oils. It dates from at least the Middle Ages in Europe, and was widely adopted for easel painting by the fifteenth century.
- oil paintings (visual works) - Creative works in the medium of oil paint.
- paintings (visual works) - Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.
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