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DOROTHY HOOD (1918-2000)

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At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings.
At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings. At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings.
Black Vesselc. 1970-198070 1/8 x 60 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.(178.12 x 152.72 x 3.18 cm) oil on canvas
Provenance
Dorothy Hood Estate
Dorothy Hood Estate Holdings, Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas, acquired from the above, 2001
McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Exhibition
Texas, University of Houston Libraries, Dorothy Hood: The Edge of Being, August 2022 - March 2023

76,000

At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is her time in Mexico between 1941 and 1962, when she was front and center of the cultural, political, and social crossroads. Among her friends were Surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and native painters Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, with whom she developed a deep friendship. When she returned to Houston to paint the epic canvases for which she will forever be best known, portals to fantastical and elusive realms opened for her. The evocative forms of Black Vessel anticipate the layering, cutting, and rearranging of material to produce the visually stimulating collages that often occupied her in the 1980s. Intentional or not, the arrangement and reciprocal patterns suggest a Burmese pagoda silhouetted against the night sky. A pagoda is primarily used as a monument for housing relics, and the tiered structure symbolizes Buddhist teachings.
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