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Elevators
Artist
William Judson Dickerson
(United States, 1904 - 1972)
Dateca. 1934
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSUPPORT: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
FRAME: 32 x 37 1/2 in. (81.3 x 95.2 cm)
FRAME: 32 x 37 1/2 in. (81.3 x 95.2 cm)
Object TypePaintings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, acquisition made possible with funds provided by the Friends of Art
Object number1934.2
On View
Not on view• The edges of the city and its backyards and alleyways attracted artist William Dickerson of Wichita. Elevators depicts the city’s Red Star Milling Company grain elevators along the Santa Fe railroad tracks looking south from 21st Street.
• A biographer of the artist (likely his wife Betty Dickerson) wrote: “In the city backyard areas he moved in with camp stools and chose his vantage spots with care. These numerous ‘backyards’ were especially dear to him … with their semi-surreal quality which he made even more compelling by selective understatement.”
• A biographer of the artist (likely his wife Betty Dickerson) wrote: “In the city backyard areas he moved in with camp stools and chose his vantage spots with care. These numerous ‘backyards’ were especially dear to him … with their semi-surreal quality which he made even more compelling by selective understatement.”
Exhibitions
Bibliography
William Judson Dickerson
1934
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