TitleRose and Saffron/Viennese Style IV
Artist
Carolyn Brady
(American, 1937 - 2005)
Date2001
MediumWatercolor over graphite on white wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 15 × 22 1/2 in.
Mat size: 20 1/2 × 28 1/4 in.
SignedSigned at left center edge: "Carolyn Brady / [10?] 2001".
MarkingsBlindstamp at BRC, illegible
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 21, 2003
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2003.22
Label TextBeginning in the mid-1980s Brady began to paint table top still-lifes, or "tablescapes," as she referred to them. This particular watercolor is from a large series of intimate paintings of food the artist created in the late-1990s and early 2000s. Each work in the series depicts a different dish and Rose and Saffron/Viennese Style IV is one of six paintings of the same size depicting a lunch at a Viennese restaurant. When seen together the Viennese works have an almost cinematic effect that the artist noted "[work] almost as small movies." Brady worked exclusively in watercolor. She liked “both the transparency and the intense color you can get [with watercolor] – more intense than in oils. . . . the tonal range seems greater in watercolor than in any other kind of painting. You can go intense, but you can also go very, very pale . . . you can’t put oil on in the same kind of smooth, clear way as watercolor.”
