Red Building in Forest, Hale, Alabama

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Red Building in Forest, Hale, Alabama

Creator

William Christenberry

American Photographer · 1936–2016

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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

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Object Description · 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.

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https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/186d0837-01da-4354-b959-67b2148aafa8
Artist/Maker
William Christenberry
subject_of[Homepage].id
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108FT7
Date
1984–1985
Medium
Balsa, basswood, plywood, tempera, paper, soil
Culture
American
Object Type
Mixed media

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A miniature red shed with a metal roof on a wooden base.

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Object ID
03e3627c-deda-4c91-ba9a-656b419ab859
Object Type
Mixed media
  • Getty Museum field “Object Type” · copied as is
Creator
William Christenberry
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
American
  • Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
Medium
Balsa, basswood, plywood, tempera, paper, soil
  • Getty Museum field “Medium” · copied as is
Department
Sculpture
  • Getty Museum field “Department” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Getty's classification category is stored as department.
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy and Bruce Berman
  • Getty Museum field “Standard Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
  • Getty Museum field “Source Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
Date
1984–1985
  • Getty Museum field “Date” · copied as is
Begin Year
1984
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End Year
1985
  • Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.end_of_the_end” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field

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