Accession Number
1988/2.6

Title
There Are Some

Artist(s)
Gerome Kamrowski

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1943

Medium & Support
paint, ink, photograph and printed paper assemblage

Dimensions
20 11/16 in x 18 7/8 in (52.6 cm x 48 cm);20 3/4 in x 19 in x 2 in (52.71 cm x 48.26 cm x 5.1 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

Label copy
Kamrowski’s box works were largely executed during a summer spent in Woodstock, New York; this work uses collaged materials set within a shadow-box construction. The inclusion of collage in works of art began with the Cubists and Dadaists, and remained an integral component of Max Ernst’s prints. Here technical prints of machines, heightened with white, are combined with a photograph of an industrial site and an allegorical figure of winter. The enigma of these components is further heightened by the black and pink setting of the shadow-box. The inscription, ". . . there are some things," is overlapped by the levels of the interior structure, lending this work a Dada-like complexity.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impluse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

Primary Object Classification
Mixed Media

Primary Object Type
assemblage

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Surrealism
abstraction
machine
modern and contemporary art