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Tybee Forks and Starts (G)

1978

American, 1943 - 2012

Groover's photographs are a strong example of art historian Meyer Shapiro's view of the still-life genre: "Often associated with a style that explores patiently and minutely the appearance of nearby things-their textures, lights, reflections, and shadows-the still-life objects bring to awareness the complexity of the phenomenal and the subtle interplay of perception and artifice in representation…We are led to consider the whole as an arrangement by the artists, a pure invention.

Chromogenic print

Overall h.: 3 3/4 in.

Overall w.: 4 11/16 in.

Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

82.8

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 200 Photographs from the Museum Collection, Dec. 8, 1983 - Feb. 5, 1984. Text by Rod Slemmons. No cat. no.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Smoke and Mirrors, May 10 - Nov. 9, 2008.

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