Chronologically, the exhibition begins with the small
painting Red Label (1958), made the year before Smith's first visit to America.
The painting Red Label (1958) represents a turning point in Smith's career as an artist, painted before leaving for New York on a Harkness Fellowship in 1959.
Not exact matches
In
painting, a hooded figure sinks into water with a cross
labeled Jesus Saves, the letters intersecting in blood
red.
Not seen this yet, but the image that interests me most is «
Red Label», the earliest
painting in the show (1958).
Nor do I think, like Sam, that «
Red Label» is a flat image; I think it has, along with quite a bit of Smith's very early, freely - brushed but clearly structured work of the late fifties, more spatial «life» in it than much of the stuff that came later, work that attempted to wed
painting to literal three - dimensionality.
In the corner of the
painting were bottles of Bass beer, which I found out was the first company in London to copyright its
label, the
red triangle.
Chrissy also gives each team a marker for
labeling and
red & blue craft
paint.