Vija Celmins American, born Latvia, 1938 · 1991

Night Sky #2

Vija Celmins American, born Latvia, 1938

Night Sky #2

1991

Vija Celmins's 'Night Sky #2' (1991) is a painstakingly rendered painting of a patch of star-filled night sky, the minuscule points of light observed from astronomical photographs and transferred with microscopic discipline to alkyd on canvas. Celmins's ocean, desert, and sky pictures are meditative essays on observation; this example is held by the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago