Accession Number1986/1.178
TitleAncestral Shore
Artist(s)Theodoros StamosObject Creation Date1948Medium & Supportoil on boardDimensions 20 in x 24 in (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Betty Parsons FoundationLabel copyStamos was a member of the younger generation of Americans who gravitated to the Surrealist emigrés in New York; this group also included Seligmann and Gorky. The vocabulary of his paintings come from natural forms—plants and rocks. He combines them, however, into richly evocative works that have strong liminal associations.
Stamos had his first one-man show in New York in 1943, at the Wakefield Gallery. Its gallery director, Betty Parsons, acquired Ancestral Shore.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998
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Keywords
Surrealism
abstraction
modern and contemporary art
shores