Lillington, NC Harnett Co.
Beverly Buchanan
Contemporary Art
Over a forty-year career, Beverly Buchanan explored the relationship between personal, historical, and geographical memory. Buchanan’s series of small-scale shack sculptures are ruminations on the aesthetics of southern vernacular architecture. Monuments to impermanence, Buchanan’s shacks memorialize quarters for enslaved people, tenant farmer dwellings, and churches, which often fell into ruin while plantation houses were preserved as historical sites.
MEDIUM
Acrylic on foamcore
DATES
2007
DIMENSIONS
8 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 26.7 × 27.9 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2017.32.2
CREDIT LINE
William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Beverly Buchanan (American, Fuquay–Varina, NC, born 1940, died 2015, Ann Arbor, MI). Lillington, NC Harnett Co., 2007. Acrylic on foamcore, 8 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 26.7 × 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2017.32.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2017.32.2_front_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
front, 2017.32.2_front_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2018
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