"Past Limestone Lambs and Ladies Weeping"
Artist
Robin Brickman
(b. 1954)
Date1998
MediumWatercolor, acrylic, and glue
Dimensionsn.d.
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineGift of the Artist
Object number2007.95LIC
DescriptionThe art of Robin Brickman rest somewhere on the boundary between illustration and paper sculpture. To create “Past Limestone Lambs and Ladies Weeping”, Brickman cut and painted each of the elements in watercolor and glued them back together into a three-dimensional image. Interestingly, the work was crafted exclusively as an illustration for Midnight in the Cemetery, a children’s book by Cheryl Harness, and appeared among its pages as a photographed reproduction. In “Past Limestone Lambs and Ladies Weeping”, Brickman fancifully captures a spooky moment in a graveyard at midnight – a scene in a story that was written to teach young children the letters of the alphabet. In this particular illustration, the lesson is for the letter “L”, just as the title suggests.
Robin Brickman earned her BA in Graphic Arts and Botany at Bennington College, Vermont, in 1976. She currently works and resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband Jefferson, and her two sons, Jared and Caleb. Her art has been exhibited at the National Aviary, the Smithsonian Institution, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, among many others.
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