Untitled
Jan Groover
American, 1943–2012
1977
A three-panel chromogenic color photograph in which Jan Groover frames cropped suburban house exteriors—siding, a brick chimney, and clipped shrubs—turning ordinary domestic details into a carefully staged formal study.
What strikes you is the cool, restrained geometry: repeating horizontal siding, vertical trims and neatly clipped bushes rendered in tightly cropped panels that flatten depth and emphasize subtle color and texture.
Made in 1977, this work helped legitimize color photography and the photographic triptych as a means to treat everyday domestic subjects as modern still lifes, influencing how color and composition were accepted in contemporary art.
Medium
Chromogenic prints
Dimensions
Each 19 1/16 × 12 15/16" (48.4 × 32.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Alan Siegel
Accession
332.1994.a-c.x1-x2
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