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#9 with O'Keeffe
#9 with O'Keeffe
#9 with O'Keeffe

#9 with O'Keeffe

Artist (American, 1928 - 2019)
Date1981
MediumAcrylic and mixed media on canvas
DimensionsSupport: 48 x 50 in. (121.9 x 127 cm)
Frame: 48 7/8 x 50 7/8 x 1 7/16 in. (124.1 x 129.2 x 3.7 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Barbara Doroba-Ogg and Michael Ogg, 2012
Object number2012.9
DescriptionOn a medium blue-green background are squares and rectangles of single or polychrome color that appear as torn paper or paper floating above the surface. Slightly lower than center is a rectangle of black glitter with blue and green spots. A trompe-l’oeil postcard of a Western landscape appears tucked beneath the glitter rectangle, as does a trompe-l’oeil newspaper clipping that includes a photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe, a portion of a book review by Santa Fe artist Carol Mothner, and an article on a Bob Dylan concert tour.
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Paul Sarkisian has lived and worked in Santa Fe and environs for 40 years, since 1972. He is an accomplished painter whose career began in Los Angeles in the 1950s, where he showed at Ferus Gallery. #9 with O’Keeffe is done in a photo-realist style, which Sarkisian was noted for through the mid-1980s. The various rectangles of pure color contrast with the details rendered in the newspaper clipping and the postcard. Significantly, the newspaper clipping pictures Georgia O’Keeffe, with whom the Sarkisian family was friends, and shows the end of an article written by local artist Carol Mothner. In this sense, this painting gives the viewer a glimpse of what was happening in Santa Fe at the moment when this painting was created.
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