TitleSunflower Variations 3
Artist
Patricia Nix
(American, b. 1944)
Date1988
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 50 × 50 in.
Framed: 50 5/8 × 50 7/8 × 1 1/2 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, September 16, 1992
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1992.41
Label TextPatricia Nix appreciates the sunflowers in Texas, where she grew up, "in Texas, they have these big fields…sort of like in Dr. Zhivago," she said. The repetition of a circle in a square is very important to the artist; she has used a checkerboard motif since she was a child. The division of the painting into squares is a common feature of her art and relates her paintings to her box constructions and collages, which are surrealist in style.
September 1829