Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bruce McLean, Born 1944, British
Title:
Storehouse / Starehouse of Art (Diptych)
Date:
1998
Materials & Techniques:
Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 35 × 29 inches (88.9 × 73.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered upper left to lower right: "A big Barnet Newman, a seminal | Soulage, a small Henry Moore, store | based, store bored, score board, | Andre to Zorio. No fire brick in the | Tate inglenook, neuk (nuke nuke) | electric eclectic american influence, influenced by a day-trip to Anne | Hathaway's Stratford-upon-Avon, | Tudor patterned brick-work cottage. | The inglenooked, architected and | carefully crafted, laid-back lean-to, | National Gallery extension effect, | affected by phoney academic intel- | lectualised brick shithouse attitudes, | disguised and camouflaged in match- | ing Aquascutum raincoats, will not | dictate or determine form over here."; lettered extensively with printed handwritten notes
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
© The Artist
Accession Number:
B1999.3.15
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:33487