On View
Not on viewObject number1977/8.41
Noon
Artist
Georges Schreiber
(American, 1904-1977)
Date1942
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionsimage: 9 3/8 × 13 1/8 in. (23.8 × 33.3 cm)
sheet: 12 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (32.1 × 42.2 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 12 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (32.1 × 42.2 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Cornelia Robinson
Exhibition History"36 Regionalist prints from the KIA," Dennos Museum Center (Sept. 8 - Nov. 24, 1996), Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI (May 17 - July 13, 1997), Midland Center for the Arts (Aug. 2 - Sept. 21, 1997).Label TextSchreiber was one of those artists who was “international” in person and yet was able to create art that is national in character. Born in Belgium and educated in Germany, he was already established as an artist when he immigrated to the United States in 1928. In the 1930s he adopted a uniquely American idiom, taking as his subject the whole range of American social and physical scenery. In depicting American life, Schreiber was not only interested in social commentary: “I am definitely opposed to the use of art as a matter of propaganda, if the execution does not justify the subject.” In Noon, Schreiber presents a direct and technically masterful view of rural life that is without either condescension or sentimentality.
