Caged
Artist
Sue Jean Covacevich
(United States, 1905 - 1998)
Dateca. 1959
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSUPPORT: 35 1/8 x 28 in. (89.2 x 71.1 cm)
FRAME: 36 7/8 x 29 in. (93.7 x 73.7 cm)
FRAME: 36 7/8 x 29 in. (93.7 x 73.7 cm)
Object TypePaintings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Teresa Covacevich Grana
Object number2015.61
On View
Not on view• The artist said this painting was inspired by a chunk of red glass from Mexico, part of a large collection of colored glass in her house in Winfield, KS.
• Covacevich told her daughter that the painting was “a portrait of my life—very abstract.”
• Covacevich made the canvas in Silver City, NM, where her second husband was a college professor. In a letter to her daughter, she wrote that she was lonely and missed Kansas but also realized that time away enabled her to grow as an artist.
• The artist composed this poem about Caged:
The Cage
Life builds a cage around
the soul of man,
Some of the bars are the
Crosses
All mankind carries.
Some crosses are fallen—
Some are strong and rise to the sky,
and carry the stream
of life
On and on.
Some paintings are memories of life’s longings.
• Covacevich told her daughter that the painting was “a portrait of my life—very abstract.”
• Covacevich made the canvas in Silver City, NM, where her second husband was a college professor. In a letter to her daughter, she wrote that she was lonely and missed Kansas but also realized that time away enabled her to grow as an artist.
• The artist composed this poem about Caged:
The Cage
Life builds a cage around
the soul of man,
Some of the bars are the
Crosses
All mankind carries.
Some crosses are fallen—
Some are strong and rise to the sky,
and carry the stream
of life
On and on.
Some paintings are memories of life’s longings.
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