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Festus Yayple and his Oxen
1946
George Ault
George Ault (American, 1891–1948)
American Painting and Sculpture
Festus Yayple and his Oxen, 1946. George Ault (American, 1891–1948). Oil on canvas; framed: 76.2 x 105.4 x 6.4 cm (30 x 41 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 61.6 x 91.4 cm (24 1/4 x 36 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1949.1775 Ault worked in rural Woodstock, New York, where he befriended laborers such as ox-trader Festus Yayple. Typical of the artist’s work, this canvas infuses an aura of loneliness and beauty into the everyday world. The austere calm of the painting’s composition contrasts with the turmoil surrounding Ault, who at the time suffered from poverty, failing eyesight, alcoholism, and mental illness.
- Maker/Artist
- Ault, George Copeland
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 76.2 x 105.4 x 6.4 cm (30 x 41 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 61.6 x 91.4 cm (24 1/4 x 36 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written lower left: "G. C. Ault '46"
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1949.1775
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, "Painting in the United States, 1946," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October 10--December 8, 1946.<br>Smithsonian American Art Museium (3/11/2011 - 9/5/2011), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (10/15/2011 - 1/8/2012), and Georgia Museum of Art (2/18/2012 - 4/16/2012): "To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America", ex. cat. no. 67, p. 112, det. p. 134.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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