Café au Lait

2010
Dessner, Murray

Object Details

TITLE:
Café au Lait
DATE:
2010
MEDIUM:
Acrylic on canvas
DIMENSIONS:
22 x 25 in.
CREDIT LINE:
Gift of the artist, 2011

Not currently on view

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Description

In Café au Lait, an atmosphere of color and radiant light offers itself as a focus for meditation. Although diaphanous and cloud-like, the palette of variations in orange, yellow, and red tones does not reflect the colors of the natural sky.

Murray Dessner studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. An abstract painter, he is admired for his extraordinary ability to create a palpable sense of light and dramatize its effect on color. He made several trips to Patmos, a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, which introduced him to the effects of incandescent light.

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