Union Mixer

Colleen Browning
"Union Mixer", 1975
Lithograph on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Lorillard, 1976.
2021.08.006

Colleen Browning graduated in 1938 from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In 1949 she moved to the United States and settled in New York City where she quickly adapted her style to include depictions of tenement buildings and local crowds. Her work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum, and the Pennsylvania Gallery of the Fine Arts. In 1966 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The artist described her work as a form of evocative realism, true to life but uncanny. “I have tried to evoke the magical from reality by an accurate visual reconstruction of the facts, so that the viewer can share my aesthetic shock in unexpected revelations.” Browning died in 2003. (DKS)

Image description:
A grid of thirty horizontal rectangles containing realistic human faces of different ages, genders, and ethnicities backed by portions of the American flag. Some of the rectangles feature stars and others have stripes. Some contain single faces and others two faces looking at each other. The expressions on the various faces are either neutral or smiling. The colors are mainly red, white, blue, gold and orange (written by Andrea Noonoo).