Seaside

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Artist Loren MacIver (American, 1909–1998)

Title Seaside

Date Ca. 1938

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 34 3/4 x 40 3/4 in. (88.3 x 103.5 cm)
Stretcher: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

Credit Line Allocated by the U.S. Government, Commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 43.17

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Loren MacIver received her only formal artistic training as a child at the Art Students League in New York City. She found employment with the Federal Art Project during the Depression, and was featured in the prestigious Fourteen Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946. Many of her paintings were inspired by the seaside, as she spent many of her summers at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In an abstracted, almost hieroglyphic manner, Seaside depicts the symbols of summer, such as beach houses and boats against a background of watery blue.

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