South American Sunset

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It is unknown if Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome ever visited South America. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Jerome’s father was an executive at L. Candee Rubber, a company reliant upon rubber imported from Brazilian rainforests. Jerome’s idealized landscape ignores theimpact this extractive US industry had on the local landscape and Amazonian Indigenous populations whowere forced to collect the rubber. The forked tree at left compositionally mirrors the sails of the boat in the middle ground, drawing together the land, water, andcommerce in a clever and aesthetically informed manner. The beauty obscures the impact of US imperialism in South America.

From the 2023 exhibition Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023

Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2023

Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2023

Art History 40.01, American Art and Identity, Mary Coffey, Fall 2023

Creative Writing 10.02, Writing and Reading Fiction, Katherine Crouch, Fall 2023

Geography 11.01, Qualitative Methods, Emma Colven, Fall 2023

Geography 2.01, Introduction to Human Geography, Coleen Fox, Fall 2023

Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023

English 30.01, African and African American Studies 34.01, Early Black American LIterature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024

Writing 5.06, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024

Writing 5.07, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024

College Course 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Francine A'Ness and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2024

German 1.01, Introductory German, Meryem Deniz, Fall 2024

Philosophy 23.01, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Fall 2024

Latin American and Caribbean Studies 30.21, History of Cuba, Mario Machado, Fall 2025

Exhibition History

Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, Israel Sack Gallery and the Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 29, 2023-November 24, 2024.

Publication History

McQueeney-Jones Mascolo, Frances. "American Art at Shannon's," The Maine Antiques Digest, August 2023, p. 85 (color).

Provenance

Alexander Gallery, New York, New York (label on the reverse); Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York (label on the reverse); Shannon's, Milford, Connecticut, October 27, 2011, lot 61; Private Collection, Massachusetts; Shannon's, Milford, Connecticut, April 27, 2023, lot 46; sold to present collection, 2023.

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