Loved Ones #1
| Artist | Eva Warrick |
|---|---|
| Title | Loved Ones #1 |
| Date | 2010 |
| Medium | Gouache on paper |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 86 × 41 in. (218.4 × 104.1 cm) Framed: 93 × 48 × 2 in. (236.2 × 121.9 × 5.1 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Lucienne Glaubinger, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 2015.84 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
This colorful image depicts a hung bedsheet with a floral pattern in yellow, pink, and green against the back lighting of a window.
Trained at Indiana University (MFA 2006), Eva Marie Warrick embraced a hyperrealist style with a feminist twist. Her human-sized images from the Loved Ones series suggest the intimacy of bed sheets and the domesticity of window coverings and stenciled wallpaper. The old-fashioned floral pattern evokes the natural world and the traditional gift of nosegays (or tussie-mussies) to women by their suitors. Using opaque watercolor—considered a “ladies’ medium” in the nineteenth century—Warrick creates the illusion of backlighting and open space beyond the room’s confines. However, without further context, it is unclear whether the sheet curtain represents a desire for privacy, a sign of poverty, and/or a maternal stand-in.
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"Loved Ones #1 | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2015.84