Getty Museum
Red Building in Forest, Hale, Alabama
Creator
William ChristenberryAmerican Photographer · 1936–2016
All works by this person →For most of his career, William Christenberry made an annual pilgrimage from his home in Washington, D.C. to the red-clay soil of his youth in central Alabama, where he documented and was inspired by its rural landscape. Living away from the South enabled him to respond viscerally--through paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography--to sites of deep meaning for him. Although Christenberry lon
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1984–1985
- Medium
- Balsa, basswood, plywood, tempera, paper, soil
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Sculpture
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Working from images and from memory, William Christenberry modeled this sculpture on the red building featured in a photograph. He referred to this piece as a "building construction" because he relied on imagination rather than measurements to make it. Though this work was not intended as a precise, scaled-down replica, Christenberry hoped to evoke the feeling of the original building and its environs; his inclusion of red soil from Alabama heightens this effect.
The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.