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Untitled - Roof Top View

Name: Untitled - Roof Top View | Joan Nelson
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 57914

Joan Nelson

$20,000

American (1958)

Date: 1984
Egg Tempera on Masonite
Size: 34 x 48 in. (86.36 x 121.92 cm)

$20,000

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about Untitled - Roof Top View

This painting by Joan Nelson depicts a sepia-toned scene placed behind the walls of a dark brown building.

Potentially depicting a rooftop, the nearly black ground is flanked on the left by tall, dark, and uniform buildings. Along the right is a cement wall topped by a chain link fence. The buildings and wall are both stopped in the distance by a dark border wall and above the whole scene is a foggy white sky.

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About The Artist: Joan Nelson

Joan Nelson (born 1958, El Segundo, California) is a visual artist who lives and works in upstate New York. For over three decades, Nelson has been making "epic and theatrical landscape paintings," borrowing from art history and re-presenting iconic vistas from the Fine Art lexicon including those of the Hudson River and Mount Hood. Joan Nelson spent her youth in St. Louis, Missouri, and "emerged from the East Village in the mid-‘80s at...

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About The Medium: Tempera

A permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Also known as Egg Tempera.

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