TitleWisteria
Artist
Karl Anderson
(American, 1874 - 1956)
Date1915
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 29 × 27 in.
Framed: 32 1/4 × 30 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.
SignedSigned upper right: "Karl Anderson 1915"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 3, 1924
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number31-P
Label Text"Wisteria" displays one of Anderson's most revered subjects, a delicate, ethereal woman in a garden shimmering with color and textural effects. Anderson favored the wisteria motif; it is seen also in "Children Playing before Wisteria" (n.d.), "Wisteria and Two Children" (1920), "Wisteria Arbor" (n.d.), and a work illustrated in the November 1922 issue of International Studio that nearly repeats the Academy's painting, substituting a parasol for the beach chair in the foreground.It was at Giverny in 1909 that Anderson's style developed from a linear, descriptive rendering of form to an investigation of the power of color made more aggressive in heavy impasto, as demonstrated by "Wisteria." The artist described the Giverny style of painting as "a psychological emotion expressed in color."
