Garden Gate

circa 1955
Mangione, Patricia

Object Details

TITLE:
Garden Gate
DATE:
circa 1955
MEDIUM:
Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS:
20 x 30 in.
CREDIT LINE:
Museum purchase, 2019

Not currently on view

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Description

Mangione described her paintings as vignettes that border on the surreal. In Garden Gate, a red tree towers like an otherworldly entity over a gate and a fence made of arrows. The overlapping rectangles and squares suggest a crowded city bordered by an enchanted forest.

 

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