Ancestral Shore

Accession Number
1986/1.178

Title
Ancestral Shore

Artist(s)
Theodoros Stamos

Object Creation Date
1948

Medium & Support
oil on board

Dimensions
20 in x 24 in (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation

Label copy
Stamos 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

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
Surrealism
abstraction
modern and contemporary art
shores

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