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Ancestral Shore

Theodoros Stamos

Artwork Details

Ancestral Shore
1948
Theodoros Stamos
oil on board
27 5/8 x 34 1/2 x 3/4 in. (70.17 x 87.63 x 1.91 cm)
Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation
1986/1.178

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Stamos was a member of the younger generation of Americans who gravitated to the Surrealist emigrés in New York; this group also included Seligmann and Gorky. The vocabulary of his paintings come from natural forms—plants and rocks. He combines them, however, into richly evocative works that have strong liminal associations.
Stamos had his first one-man show in New York in 1943, at the Wakefield Gallery. Its gallery director, Betty Parsons, acquired Ancestral Shore.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

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