BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings:

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Description of Pictures: Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
May 26, 2017 – September 4, 2017
In the 1980s Donald Sultan (born 1951) began his industrial landscape series the Disaster Paintings. He worked with the subject for nearly a decade, using images of actual events drawn from the daily newspaper. Sultan’s Disaster Paintings illustrate robust, man-made structures—such as industrial plants and train cars—as fragile constructs that can be undone by catastrophic events. The artist combined this subject matter with industrial materials, such as tar and Masonite tiles. The exhibition is the first to focus on the series and includes 12 signature paintings from 1984 to 1990, including Plant, May 29, 1985 from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which will be on view only at SAAM.
The exhibition is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; SAAM is the third stop on a five-city national tour for the exhibition. An exhibition catalogue, published by Prestel, is available in the museum store.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGDS_170528_001.JPG: Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings Donald Sultan's career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker spans more than forty years. Born in 1951, Sultan rose to prominence in the 1980s, the same years he began his industrial landscape series The Disaster Paintings, on which he worked for nearly a decade. Illustrating an array of catastrophes, including forest fires, railway accidents, arsons, and industrial plants producing toxic plumes, the Disaster Paintings eternalize events that occur daily in contemporary life et are quickly eclipsed when the next tragedy arises. Combining this subject matter with industrial materials such as tar and Masonite tiles, the works exemplify in both media and concept the vulnerability of the most progressive manufactured elements of modern culture. In their large scale and impressive physicality, the Disaster Paintings echo the drama of their subjects. The series presents a merging of apparent opposites, bringing together the materials of minimalism with representational painting; stylistically combining figuration and abstraction; and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events drawn from newspaper imagery to nineteenth-century art -- historical iconography. This exhibition is the first to focus on Sultan's seminal Disaster Painting series. "The series speaks to the impermanence of all things. The largest cities, the biggest structures, the most powerful empires -– everything dies. Man is inherently self-destructive, and whatever is built will eventually be destroyed... That's what the works talk about: life and death. " -- Donald Sultan Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The presentation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is generously supported by: Elizabeth Broun Gene Davis Memorial Fund James F. Dicke Family Endowment Smithsonian American Art Museum
2. SIPGDS_170528_009.JPG: Accident July 15 1985, 1985 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches The Metropolitan Museum of Art Purchase, Florene M. Schoenborn Gift
3. SIPGDS_170528_026.JPG: Polish Landscape II Jan 5 1990 (Auschwitz), 1990 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York Gift of the Broad Art Foundation
4. SIPGDS_170528_030.JPG: Veracruz Nov 18 1986, 1986 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Matthew and Iris Strauss Collection Rancho Santa Fe, California
5. SIPGDS_170528_039.JPG: Plant May 29 1985, 1985 Latex, tar, and fabric on vinyl tile mounted on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Thomas M. Evans, Jerome L. Greene, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and Sydney and Frances Lewis Purchase Fund, 1985
6. SIPGDS_170528_044.JPG: Yellowstone Aug 15 1990, 1990 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Private collection, New York
7. SIPGDS_170528_050.JPG: Early Morning May 20 1986, 1986 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Private collection, New York
8. SIPGDS_170528_058.JPG: Double Church Nov 8 1990, 1990 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Private collection, New York; on loan to the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
9. SIPGDS_170528_063.JPG: Dead Plant Nov 1 1988, 1988 Tar and latex on canvas 108 1/8 x 144 1/4 inches Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Museum purchase made possible by a grant from The Burnett Foundation
10. SIPGDS_170528_068.JPG: Venice Without Water June 12 1990, 1990 Tar and latex on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Purchased with funds from the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Art Trust Fund
11. SIPGDS_170528_081.JPG: South End Feb 24 1986, 1986 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Dallas Museum of Art Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift
12. SIPGDS_170528_089.JPG: "We always think our world is completely unassailable and will last forever. But then you see that's not necessarily the case. So many great civilizations have disappeared. It's usually hubris and human beings who bring about the down fall of their own structures." -- - Donald Sultan
13. SIPGDS_170528_093.JPG: Forest Fire Jan 5 1984, 1984 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 x 96 inches Private collection, New York; on long-term loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art
14. SIPGDS_170528_102.JPG: Firemen March 6 1985, 1985 Latex and tar on tile over Masonite 96 1/2 x 96 1/2 inches Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Tompkins Collection-Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund
15. SIPGDS_170528_110.JPG: Donald Sultan The Disaster Paintings
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