Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art: Everlasting Waterfall

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Everlasting Waterfall

In her Waterfall series, Pat Steir has explored the imagery of water, continuing her fascination with landscape. This work, which verges on abstraction, is nevertheless an evocative representation of a waterfall. The artist applied a number of horizontal brushstrokes loaded with thinned paint at the top of the canvas, and the paint streamed down in lines, drips, and rivulets, emulating the properties of water.

Artist: Pat Steir, American, born 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1989
Dimensions: 108 1/2 x 95in. (275.6 x 241.3cm)
Collections: Contemporary Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 1990.109
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by the Contemporary Art Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Plan, and Gift of Edward A. Bragaline, by exchange
Copyright: © Pat Steir
Image: Overall, 1990.109_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2008

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