2000.318 Grant, Looking North

This realist painting by Fort-Worth based artist J.T. Grant depicts a dramatic, partially sunlit cloud formation. Painted from memory, Grant's "real" scene borders on the surreal, with a cloud assuming the shape of a strange animal or a floating island. The edges of the canvas are intentionally left unworked to reveal the work's brown underpainting. The contrast between the flat underpainting and luminescent surface metaphorically suggests memory's constructed character. 

Grant_JT (artist): DMA

Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826

oil paintings (visual works): AAT: 300033799

underpainting: AAT: 300178459

twenty-first century (dates CE): AAT: 300404515

landscapes (representations): AAT: 300015636

memory: AAT: 300254803

oil paintings (visual works): AAT: 300033799

Realist (style): AAT: 300172861

regionalism (form of expression): AAT: 300055800

Regionalist (American Scene): AAT: 300172866

sky: AAT: 300263064

Surrealist (style or movement): AAT: 300021512

underpainting: AAT: 300178459

2000: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Wendy Owsley Garrett in honor of David T. Owsley, purchase from William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX [1] 

The main source for this provenance is the letter from Carol Griffin of the Dallas Museum of Art to Wendy Garrett, dated March 28, 2000. Exceptions and supporting documentation are noted. 

[1] See also the inventory from William Campbell Contemporary Art. 

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