id: 171617 accession number: 2014.394 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.394 updated: just the two of us, 1982. Julia Wachtel (American, b. 1956). Acrylic on canvas; unframed: 187.9 x 198 cm (74 x 77 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2014.394 title: just the two of us title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1982 creation date earliest: 1982 creation date latest: 1982 current location: creditline: Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 21st century technique: acrylic on canvas department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Julia Wachtel (American, b. 1956) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 187.9 x 198 cm (74 x 77 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Julia Wachtel opening date: 2014-10-11T00:00:00 Julia Wachtel. Transformer Station (October 11, 2014-January 4, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/11/14 - 1/17/15); "Julia Wachtel" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Both figures in this painting are based on greeting card images. digital description: wall description: Emerging in the 1980s, Julia Wachtel became known for her paintings employing cartoon characters appropriated from sources as every day and relatable as greeting cards and magazines, deliberately commenting on our quickly evolving visual culture. One of Wachtel’s earliest paintings, Just the Two of Us shows two young women, one in an elaborate gown reading a letter and the other a school girl standing in front of the moon; both figures are based on images from greeting cards. That both of the female subjects are shown as desirable or sexualized is not a coincidence, speaking to the ways that representations of women have been formed by the appetites of men. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES