Untitled
Laura Owens
American, born 1970
2003
A watercolor-and-pencil drawing by Laura Owens that stages a whimsical, storybook-like landscape—filled with animals, objects, and floating musical notes—aiming to mix childlike narrative imagery with loose, painterly gestures.
A bright dotted sunburst punctures a pale washed sky, and a casually sketched figure in a straw hat wanders among lightly rendered creatures, a robot, and scattered household items rendered in delicate washes and pencil lines, giving the scene a playful, dreamlike immediacy.
The piece showcases Owens’s strategy of collapsing high and low visual sources—cartoon, folk imagery, and abstract painterly effects—helping to expand contemporary painting toward humor, narrative ambiguity, and hybrid techniques.
Medium
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions
10 1/4 x 7" (26 x 17.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Morris Orden in honor of Connie Butler
Accession
864.2013
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