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© Estate of Anne Arnold
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© Estate of Anne Arnold
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© Estate of Anne Arnold
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© Estate of Anne Arnold
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© Estate of Anne Arnold
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Anne Arnold
American, 1925-2014
Charlotte, 1971
acrylic on canvas over wood
overall: 30 x 44 x 18 inches (76.2 x 111.76 x 45.72 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1972
K1972:6
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Fischbach Gallery, New York;July 31, 1972, purchased by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo with funds provided by Seymour H. Knox, Jr.
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Information may change due to ongoing research.Glossary of Terms
Anne Arnold began making sculptures in the mid-1950s, when Abstract Expressionism still had a strong hold on the American art scene. Her works depicting animals and people are made from a diverse array of materials, such as bronze, clay, wood, and fabric soaked in resin. Autobiographical references permeate many of Arnold’s sculptures, including her works featuring life-size, or larger, domestic animals. Charlie, a black-and-white cat, and Charlotte, a pudgy pig, are an unlikely, yet compatible, duo—humorous and most certainly unexpected. Arnold intuitively captured the quirky nature of her subjects. Here, the stretched-out leanness of a cat, perhaps as it peeks its head over the sill of a window, and the seemingly majestic, but humble, presence of a pig represent characteristics we may recognize in one another.
Label from Menagerie: Animals on View, March 11–June 4, 2017
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