Carolyn Young Hisel Mixed Media Painting on Panel

Item Details

Carolyn Young Hisel (Kentucky, 1942 – 2017)
Untitled
Oil paint and graphite on panel
Signed and inscribed ‘MM’ to the lower right
Blueprint of a home folded in pocket to verso

A mixed media painting on panel by listed American artist Carolyn Young Hisel (Kentucky, 1942 – 2017) titled Shulamite. This painting depicts a dream-like scene that seems to emerge out of the richly colored layers of paint. A figure, dressed in red and wearing a conical hat, sits erectly atop a tall chair in the foreground and a small house-like structure tenuously sits in the distance. This work is signed to the lower right. It is housed behind an ivory linen mat in a composite frame.

Carolyn Young Hisel grew up in Lexington, Kentucky where her grandmother taught her to draw and paint while exposing her to the representational paintings of centuries past. She developed a view of the art world that was challenged when she arrived at the University of Kentucky and discovered modern painting and abstract expressionism. The juxtaposition of these two artistic ideas has continued to shape her work throughout her career, her abstractions usually containing a figurative aspect and a narrative quality. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the Southeast, including a retrospective at the Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, in 1989.

Dimensions

- measures frame. Visible image area measures 29" W x 21" H.

Item #

18CIN517-293