Melone
Judy Pfaff, American (born England), born 1946
1987
Woodcut and silkscreen collage on paper
Frame: 60 3/8 × 68 3/8 in. (153.4 × 173.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan R. Malloy in memory of her husband, Edwin A. Malloy, Class of 1983P
© Judy Pfaff/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
PR.2001.12.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, and inscribed, in graphite, lower left: T.P.E. MELONE J. Pfaff 1987
Label
About her own work, Judy Pfaff recently said, “There’s a kind of nervousness. There is always a bouncing around, like a lot of things you can really look at. Most art makes you think. It calms you down. You get reflective. Mine is like—What is that? Why is that? No one says what a peaceful place this is to live in this world.” Comprised of silkscreen and woodcut elements, Melone almost seems to rotate. Bold, organic forms interlock and overlap in a vibrant composition that pushes at its edges. How do you experience this work when you really look at it closely?
From the 2024 exhibition Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming and Neely McNulty, Hood Foundation Curator of Education
Course History
FILM 47, Cut & Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Winter 2012
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
FILM 44.02/SART 17.19, Cut and Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.182, no.183.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 75 , no. 62
Provenance
Susan R. Malloy; given to present collection, 2001.
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