Humanised prairie.

Main entry:

Gerson, Wolfgang, 1916-1991.

Title & Author:

Humanised prairie.

Publication:

[1948]

Description:

1 art original : pen, ink and watercolour on paper ; 48 x 64 cm. on support 56 x 71 cm.

Summary:

Watercolour painting by Wolfgang Gerson, created in 1948 when he was a professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba. Showing an awareness of contemporary surrealism and the work of artists such as Salvador Dali and Jean Miro, Gerson's dream-like painting depicts a flat landscape under a bright blue sky, populated by numerous abstract geometric, biological, and amorphous forms. The work, which perhaps anticipated the advent of post-war modernism in western Canada, is signed in the lower right corner - Humanised Prairie. W.G. 48.

Biographical note:

Canadian and German architect and professor.

Resources:
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Form/genre:

Paintings (visual works)
Watercolors (paintings)

Holdings:

Location: Library archives collection 261716
Call No.: AP080
Status: Available

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