Drollery
Signed lower right: Lowrey
Description
Lowrey started painting puppets while working in R. H. Ives Gammell’s studio in the late 1970s, because the usual objects found in table-top still life paintings did not interest him. Eventually, he began fabricating the puppets portrayed in his work and, to complete the effect, construct proscenium-like frames. Drollery is one such example revealing an underlying whimsy found in Lowrey’s work, as a jester-like puppet literally holds the world in his hands.
Provenance
Private collection of Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Marcia Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
1). (signed and titled): Drollery / David Lowrey
Labels
1). Guild Award of Merit / David Lowrey / Drollery Oil
2). Drollery / 19 1/2 x 24 / $3,500.00
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Excellent.
Frame Details
Original frame (made by the artist)
Description
Lowrey started painting puppets while working in R. H. Ives Gammell’s studio in the late 1970s, because the usual objects found in table-top still life paintings did not interest him. Eventually, he began fabricating the puppets portrayed in his work and, to complete the effect, construct proscenium-like frames. Drollery is one such example revealing an underlying whimsy found in Lowrey’s work, as a jester-like puppet literally holds the world in his hands.
Provenance
Private collection of Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Marcia Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
1). (signed and titled): Drollery / David Lowrey
Labels
1). Guild Award of Merit / David Lowrey / Drollery Oil
2). Drollery / 19 1/2 x 24 / $3,500.00
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Excellent.
Frame Details
Original frame (made by the artist)
