TitleSpring Carnival
Artist
Stephen Morgan Etnier
(American, 1903 - 1984)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 36 in.
Framed: 41 × 47 × 3 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Stephen Etnier"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 6, 1953
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1484-P
Label TextIn a general statement about his art quoted in the publication accompanying an exhibition held by Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts in 1951, Etnier said: Whether I consciously will it or not, whether I am painting a race track, a West Indian bar room, a carnival, or a beach, a certain nostalgic sadness usually manages to creep into the finished work. There is always a hint, it seems to me, of those people who in the past have enjoyed a day at the races, or stood before my subject did at a lonely tropic bar waiting for something to happen, or in bygone spings came out in a restless mood to attend their local carnival, or walked a windswept beach at dawn.
