id:			301897
accession number:	2017.124
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.124
updated:		2023-01-11 23:41:14.356000

Vincent Longo and Pat Adams, 1962. Sylvia Sleigh (British, 1911–2010). Oil on canvas; 66 x 76.2 cm (26 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 2017.124

title:				Vincent Longo and Pat Adams
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creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
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creditline:			Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh
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culture:	Britain
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Sylvia Sleigh (British, 1911–2010)  - artist
Welsh painter and draftsman, ca. 1916-2010, active in the United States
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measurements: 66 x 76.2 cm (26 x 30 in.)
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fun fact:
The subjects in this painting are a real-life married couple.

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A Welsh painter, Sylvia Sleigh moved to the US in the 1960s where she became known for her series of portraits of friends living in New York’s Lower East Side and SoHo neighborhoods. This is a portrait of fellow artists Vincent Longo and Pat Adams. Sleigh’s decision to paint from life was an intervention in traditional modes of art making, which often did not afford women the opportunity to use models. She says, “Once I became aware of this situation in the ’60s, I made a point of finding male models and painting them as portraits.”
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