1954, Felrath Hines, Hanging Garden -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: In Hanging Garden, a central patchwork of layered translucent brush marks brings together a surprising range of pastel yellows, oranges, and pinks touched with flashes of red, black, and white to give the optical effect of a lush garden suspended in a turquoise ground. Working in New York in the 1950s, Hines often painted from memory and imagination for his abstract compositions, drawing inspiration from poetry, music, or formative early recollections of his mother arranging brightly colored sewing patterns. As he once described, "An artist's work is to rearrange everyday phenomena so as to enlarge our perception of who we are and what goes on about us."
1954, Felrath Hines, Hanging Garden -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: In Hanging Garden, a central patchwork of layered translucent brush marks brings together a surprising range of pastel yellows, oranges, and pinks touched with flashes of red, black, and white to give the optical effect of a lush garden suspended in a turquoise ground. Working in New York in the 1950s, Hines often painted from memory and imagination for his abstract compositions, drawing inspiration from poetry, music, or formative early recollections of his mother arranging brightly colored sewing patterns. As he once described, "An artist's work is to rearrange everyday phenomena so as to enlarge our perception of who we are and what goes on about us."