Sarah McEneaney (American, born Germany, 1955)
Bedroom 1995
egg tempera on gessoed wood
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2004.24.1

Sarah McEneaney paints autobiographical narratives based on her immediate surroundings, such as this interior of her bedroom at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), where she lived during an artist’s residency in 1995. Working from observation, memory and imagination, McEneaney captures the emotional and physical character of a particular situation or event — whether mundane or dramatic — in remarkably vivid detail, without relying on the perspective typical of Western realism. Solitude is a frequent them of her work.

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