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Indonesian Dance

Artist:Martha Sawyers
Date:1960s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:24" x 36"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Illustration Art of Unknown Usage
Price: Sold
Above: Full view of artwork
Above: The artist’s signature lower right
Above: Detail

This stirring oil on canvas presents a traditional Indonesian dance filled with music, movement, and joy. Martha Sawyers, the artist, made a name in the illustration world for her deeply sensitive and captivating portraits of Far Eastern life, and this jubilant image celebrates the culture of her adoptive home. As an adventurous young artist, Sawyers took an impulsive trip through the South Seas on a Dutch freighter after her graduation from the Art Student’s League. The trip changed the course of her life, and her illustrations helped counter the crude stereotypes of the East which so often permeated American culture during and after the Second World War.

During her long career, she returned to the region time and again, and her appreciation for the variety of cultures and peoples she encountered culminated in the book she co-authored with her husband William Reusswig India and Southeast Asia. This oil on canvas is in keeping with the illustrations used in that work, but its eroticism would have precluded its inclusion. Painting is in a fine state of preservation and ready to frame.

Above: Verso view

Indonesian Dance

Artist: Martha Sawyers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, dance, erotic, illustration, indonesian, Martha Sawyers, musical, original illustration art
Added to Gallery: November 11, 2012

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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