Dorothy Hood
Near the Bay

Near the Bay

© Estate of Dorothy Hood

Near the Bay
Near the Bay
ArtistAmerican, 1918–2000
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Near the Bay
Date1982
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumCollage of charcoal, watercolor, and graphite on cut and pasted wove paper, torn and pasted kraft paper, metal foil, and cut and pasted wood engraving on wove paper, on four ply mat board
DimensionsSheet: 31 7/8 × 20 1/8 in. (81 × 51.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith J. Long
Object number83.19
Non exposé

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Description

Following a 1981 trip to
Egypt, where she amassed handfuls of beautifully printed papers, Dorothy Hood
launched into a series of collages that were to occupy her for more than a
decade. She found in collage an intimate, creative outlet that was less
demanding than her large canvases, and she also appreciated the lineage of
collage in both Cubist and Surrealist art. Reviewing Hood’s first exhibition of
these new works in 1982, Mimi Crossley observed, “They are put together in
surrealist compositions—a surrealism not made
by juxtaposing images full of content, but created by placing shapes on shapes,
texture against color, until a dreamlike world is born in toto.” Hood’s first collages
tended to be vertical, with a compositional flow that was not dissimilar to her
paintings. As the series evolved, however, Hood began to insert increasingly
narrative elements.


Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson and Dorothy Hood," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3, 2018–February 3, 2019.

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