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Tim Liddy, The Barbie Game (1960) Queen of the Prom, Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back 2007
TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Kirkwood, Missouri
“The Barbie Game” (1960) Queen of the Prom 2007
Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1960” 2007, red circular ring
Provenance: Kidder-Smith Gallery (Boston, MA)
H: 9 5/8” x W: 22 ¼” x D: 1 ½”
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.
Tim Liddy, The Barbie Game (1960) Queen of the Prom, Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back 2007
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DOROTHY RENO GROVER (1908-1975) USA
“California Interior with black cat” c. 1950’s
Oil on Canvas
Canvas: H: 40″ x W: 34 1/2″
Framed: H: 42″ x W: 36 1/2″
Born in Dallas, TX on Sept. 10, 1908 into a pioneer Texas family. (Her grandfather was mayor of Dallas, and Brownsville, Texas is named for him.) Dorothy Reno moved to California with her family at age ten and settled in San Mateo. After graduating from Mills College, she obtained an M.A. degree from UC Berkeley. She wed radio announcer John B. Grover in 1931 and settled in Oakland. In 1971 she bought the former home of artist Glenn Wessels in Berkeley where she remained until her death.
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