Photo of collection object Fallen Bierstadt
Valerie Hegarty. Fallen Bierstadt, 2007. Foamcore, paint, paper, glue, gel medium, canvas, wire, wood, 2008.9a Wall piece: 70 × 50 × 16 3/4 in. (177.8 × 127 × 42.5 cm) 2008.9b Floor piece: 3 × 39 1/2 × 10 in. (7.6 × 100.3 × 25.4 cm). Gift of Campari, USA, 2008.9a-b. © Valerie Hegarty © artist or artist's estate.

Fallen Bierstadt

2007

Valerie Hegarty

American, born 1967

Contemporary Art

Valerie Hegarty’s Fallen Bierstadt is inspired by the work of the renowned nineteenth-century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt (whose monumental A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie hangs to the right). Hegarty was drawn to the way nineteenth-century landscape artists depicted vast expanses of wilderness as an expression of “Manifest Destiny,” the notion that the United States was divinely entitled to expand across the entire North American continent. In Fallen Bierstadt the “canvas” appears to decay, as if affected by the ravages of nature. The title seems to refer both to the physical appearance of the piece and to the end of a heroic tradition of landscape painting.
Maker/Artist
Valerie Hegarty
Classification
Sculpture
Formatted Medium
Foamcore, paint, paper, glue, gel medium, canvas, wire, wood
Dimensions
2008.9a Wall piece: 70 × 50 × 16 3/4 in. (177.8 × 127 × 42.5 cm) 2008.9b Floor piece: 3 × 39 1/2 × 10 in. (7.6 × 100.3 × 25.4 cm)
Departments
Contemporary Art
Accession Number
2008.9a-b
Credit Line
Gift of Campari, USA
Rights Statement
© artist or artist's estate
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