Drawing for Pan

Peter Schuyff

born 1958

Drawing for Pan, 1998

Where object was made: Netherlands

Material/technique: ink; graphite; watercolor; paper

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 41 x 31 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 1/8 x 12 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Accession number: 2009.0074

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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns Peter Schuyff, part of the “Neo-Geometric Conceptualism” of the 1980s and 1990s, made paintings characterized by cool, impersonal, or ironic abstraction. The clever playfulness of Drawing for Pan fits this mode. The alternating rods of blue and yellow suggest the shape of pan-pipes, a musical instrument of marsh reeds used by the mythological being Pan to lure and seduce his lovers. The impish nature of Pan, the god of creativity, music, poetry, and sensuality, is reflected in the bright, optical abstraction that is characteristic of Schuyff’s work.