Artwork Details
27 x 34 in. (sheet) 28 x 35 x 1-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionSigned upper left: Siqueiros
Accession NumberGift in memory of Ann Tyndall Durham
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette(Ann Tyndall Durham Fund and Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall); purchased by the John Herron Art Institute now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1946.
The foreboding quality of the forest and the three tiny spotlighted figures, frozen in poses of fright and struggle, suggest the aftermath of a disaster.
The use of the explosive material pyroxylin, a fast drying duco, is in keeping with the artist's image of forces beyond man's control.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Reshape American Art, 1925-1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
February 17, 2020 - January 31, 2021
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974)
Museo Nacional de Arte
November 28, 1996 - February 16, 1997
(exhibition)
Indiana University Art Museum
1957 - 1957
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