Thunderstorm near Colby, KS
Artist
Jeff Aeling
(United States, 1958 - 2024)
Date1999
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsSUPPORT: 26 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (66.7 x 112.4 cm)
FRAME: 34 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (87.9 x 6.7 x 4.4 cm)
FRAME: 34 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (87.9 x 6.7 x 4.4 cm)
Object TypePaintings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase
Object number2000.38
On View
On view• Colby, population 5,387, is a city in Northwest Kansas. It lies south of Prairie Dog Creek, a branch of the Republican River in the High Plains region of the Great Plains.
• The artist was raised in the South Pacific during the period of US nuclear testing in the region and has addressed the idea of apocalypse in his art. Curator Bill North suggests that the specter of nuclear annihilation is also present in this work.
• North writes: “Inviting comparison with a mushroom cloud produced by atomic detonation, the menacing storm cloud in Aeling’s painting serves to remind us that apocalyptic events need not always be wrought by the hands of humankind.”
• The artist was raised in the South Pacific during the period of US nuclear testing in the region and has addressed the idea of apocalypse in his art. Curator Bill North suggests that the specter of nuclear annihilation is also present in this work.
• North writes: “Inviting comparison with a mushroom cloud produced by atomic detonation, the menacing storm cloud in Aeling’s painting serves to remind us that apocalyptic events need not always be wrought by the hands of humankind.”
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