Forebearance

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Artist John Himmelfarb (American, b. 1946)

Title Forebearance

Date 2009

Medium Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 54 × 76 × 3 1/2 in. (137.2 × 193 × 8.9 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Stephen Mueller in memory of Karl and Tanny Mueller, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2009.65

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Since 2003, the Chicago-based artist John Himmelfarb has created a body of work—paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings—focused on the image of the truck. Explaining his fascination with trucks, Himmelfarb has said, “There’s just something about them that’s so easy to anthropomorphize. . . . They’ve got a personality, a soul.” Himmelfarb’s work is characterized by its balance of painterliness and draftsmanship. The impastoed surface and vigorous brushwork of Forbearance are tempered by calligraphic, linear patterning. Subtle hints of red, green, and blue soften the boldly black-and-white composition.

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