{
"data": {
"id": 152355,
"accession_number": "1985.206",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "Sunset and Concrete Dock, 1984. Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941\u20132022). Oil on canvas, painted wood, concrete slabs; unframed: 335.2 x 213.3 cm (131 15/16 x 84 in.); concrete: 7 x 152.4 x 76.2 cm (2 3/4 x 60 x 30 in.); yellow house: 125.7 x 91.4 x 104.1 cm (49 1/2 x 36 x 41 in.); red house: 91.4 x 91.4 x 106.7 cm (36 x 36 x 42 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1985.206",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Sunset and Concrete Dock",
"creation_date": "1984",
"creation_date_earliest": 1984,
"creation_date_latest": 1984,
"artists_tags": [
"female"
],
"culture": [
"America"
],
"technique": "oil on canvas, painted wood, concrete slabs",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Contemporary Art",
"collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Unframed: 335.2 x 213.3 cm (131 15/16 x 84 in.); concrete: 7 x 152.4 x 76.2 cm (2 3/4 x 60 x 30 in.); Yellow house: 125.7 x 91.4 x 104.1 cm (49 1/2 x 36 x 41 in.); Red house: 91.4 x 91.4 x 106.7 cm (36 x 36 x 42 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"unframed": {
"height": 3.352,
"height_inch": 131,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
"width": 2.133,
"width_inch": 84,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0
},
"concrete": {
"height": 0.07,
"height_inch": 2,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.75,
"width": 1.524,
"width_inch": 60,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"depth": 0.762,
"depth_inch": 30,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.0
},
"yellow house": {
"height": 1.257,
"height_inch": 49,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.5,
"width": 0.914,
"width_inch": 36,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"depth": 1.041,
"depth_inch": 41,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.0
},
"red house": {
"height": 0.914,
"height_inch": 36,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"width": 0.914,
"width_inch": 36,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"depth": 1.067,
"depth_inch": 42,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.0
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "\"Year in Review 1985,\" CMA, 1986.",
"opening_date": "1985-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"Jennifer Bartlett: Recent Work,\" CMA (Jan. 28 - March 16, 1986), Milwaukee Art Museum, (Nov. 18, 1988 - Jan. 8, 1989).",
"opening_date": "1986-01-28T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": null,
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "In this multimedia environment, Bartlett demonstrates her talent for juxtaposing a variety of images, styles, and perspectives. Since the 1980s, Bartlett has combined painting and sculptural elements to create jarring illusions: her paintings explore themes of houses, gardens, and seascapes, while her inclusion of sculpted boats, houses, and other objects extends the scenes into the viewer\u2019s space. In Sunset and Concrete Dock, the painting depicts a shallow landscape of trees and a flat geometric red house at sunset. Dense with expressive brushwork, this atmospheric scene recalls both 19th-century European and American landscape painting. The painted image of a red house reappears as a volumetric object placed in front of the canvas, sparking a dialogue between concept and reality. John L. Severance Fund 1985.206.a\u2013f",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60475446"
],
"internet_archive": []
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1985.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26\u201371.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 61; Mentioned: p. 64, no. 61",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930"
},
{
"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane, \"Home Sweet Home\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 07, September 1998",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p.8-9",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-07/page/8"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 120",
"url": ""
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.206",
"images": {},
"alternate_images": [],
"creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 152355,
"creators": [
{
"id": 3382,
"description": "Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941\u20132022)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1941",
"death_year": "2022",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1985-12-18T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1984,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "1984",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "cover",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:16.242000"
}
}