ALVAN LONG (US/20TH C) VINT SGND W/C 'ROUGE PLANT' 1978 DETROIT MI CLTH MAT/FRMD

Description

ALVAN LONG
(AME
RI
CAN,
LATE
20TH CENTURY)
POST-MODERNIST
VINTAGE
SIGNED
WATERCOLOR
PAINTING
of
POST
APOCALYPTIC
INDUSTRIAL
LANDSCAPE,
TITLED
'ROUGE PLANT,'
DATED
1978,
DETROIT,
MICHIGAN,
WOVEN
LINEN
MATTING/
FRAMED
in
DISTRESSED
PUTTY
WHITE
PAINTED
WOODEN
FRAME
(Dated 1978)
Late 20th century
Ame
ri
can
Post-Modernist
painting
DIMENSIONS:
12 ¼" Width x 19 ¾" Height
(frame)
5" Width x 12
¼" Height
(image)
Weight:
3 lbs. 8 oz.
DESCRIPTION:
For sale is this recently discovered,
Boston area
based,
late 20th century
artist's apocalyptic vision, by
Alvan Long
(Ame
ri
can,
late 20th-early 21st century)
titled
'Rouge Plant,'
of a late-capitalist, menacing industrial world, seen wreaking havoc upon the environment and snuffing out life at the expense of its own self-fulfilling, destructive, doomsday prophesy. The bleeding neon treatment of the unnatural, radioactive colors, evokes a foreboding industrial landscape and accompanying toxic atmosphere, loaded with stifling, multi-colored gases and waste exhaust, seen pouring out of the smokestacks, which tower over all else like holy skyscrapers. The scene doesn't merely capture a recognizable industrial skyline and atmosphere, it's by way of selective color and the treatment of the watercolor paint, with the controlled edge bleeding and the visual vibration caused from the clash of red and green, which creates a landscape that's at once uncomfortable and something akin to a dream, where it looks and feels almost right but is nevertheless 'off.' Masterfully realized and very sensitively painted. In its original period painted wooden frame and with surrounding choice, woven coarse linen mat presentation. The work is signed in sgraffito inscribed lettering along the watercolor painting's outside margins in the pictorial field. Great vertical formatting for display in narrow, hard to decorate places in your home or office. You know where they are, since we all have them. A gorgeous
late 20th century
Post-Modernist
Ame
ri
can
watercolor painting. Exciting.
CONDITION:
Very Good to Excellent overall vintage condition.