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Fantasy (Biological Fantasy), 1946, oil on carton, 10 x 14 in. / 25.4 x 35.6 cm., © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation

Fantasy (Biological Fantasy), 1946, oil on carton, 10 x 14 in. / 25.4 x 35.6 cm., © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation

Work Acquired: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts

November 24, 2019

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts became interested in Lundeberg via their recent exhibition "Dimensionism Modern Art in the Age of Einstein,” and this has led to their purchase of Helen's Fantasy (Biological Fantasy), 1946.

Named for its founder, William Rutherford Mead (an 1867 graduate of Amherst College and a partner in the storied architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White), the Mead holds the art collection of Amherst College, celebrated for its American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, English paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant-garde art, West African sculpture and Japanese prints.

The Mead is situated in the vibrant Five Colleges academic community of western Massachusetts, and serves as a laboratory for interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching involving original works of art. Eight galleries feature regularly changing exhibitions and installations spanning a wide range of historical periods and artistic media.

https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead

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GREY INTERIOR II

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Helen Lundeberg, Grey Interior II, 1979 acrylic on canvas 60” x 50”, Collection and © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts.

 

Helen Lundeberg’s Grey Interior II, 1979 was exhibited several times shortly after the painting was completed.  It was purchased by a corporate collector in 1986 and, as far as we know, not exhibited since.   Several members of our Board recall Lundeberg expressing particular satisfaction with this work.  In 2017 the Foundation reaquired the painting for its collection. Lundeberg prepared the following statement which was located in the Feitelson/Lundeberg Papers at the Archive of American Art:     

“GRAY INTERIOR II is a recent work, one of a series of “gray” paintings,  which represents some of the themes and pictorial devices and structures which have recurred throughout my work for many years.  Closely related color (in this painting, grays varied by small additions of raw umber and red); the use of areas of white-primed canvas as form; paintings within the painting; abstract evocation of landscape and architectural fragments; cast shadows to enhance 3-D illusion.  It also represents an intention, constant in my work, to create a subjective entity both formal and lyrical through strictly planned and executed organization, of colors, forms, and value.” 

 

Lundeberg's statement has been reproduced verbatim.  We are aware that there is a discepancy between her spelling of "Gray" and the title for this work in numerous exhibitions and articles: Grey Interior II.