Title: "Royal Tide I"
Media: Painted Wood
Dimensions: 86x40x8in.
Date: 1960
Biography: Louise Nevelson was born Leah Berliawsky in Pereiaslav-khenelnytskyim Russia.
Her family immigrated to Rockland, Maine in 1905 because of cultural strain between the Jewish community & the Tsarist Russians. As a young girl she dreamed of going to New York. Louise was inspired by a plaster statue of Joan of Ark that she seen at the Rockland Public Library. Louise married Charles Nevelson & they moved to New York.
Statement By Louise: Some of us come on earth seeing...some of us come on earth seeing color."
Background on work: The arranged pieces are organized within unifying wooden boxes. The content of the wooden boxes present pieces as meetings of opposites. Her arrangement reflects her sense of the cultural clash she experienced as a child in Tsarist Russia.
Connection: Nevelson's artistic subject matter reveals her personal feelings about her childhood uprooting & cumulative experiences as a Jewish child
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