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VICTOR H. SPARROW IV (1967 - ) Generic Still Life.
Oil on cotton canvas, 1989-90. 914x1016 mm; 36x40 inches. Signed, titled, dated "7/89" and inscribed "Lacoste, Fr." in ink, verso.
Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC.
In this early painting, Victor Sparrow explores the imagery of pop culture within the history of genre painting. Sparrow's practice has incorporated from both fine art and pop sources to form a critical discourse on the role of fine art and African-American imagery in our visual culture. Generic Still Life was painted in the medieval village of Lacoste in Provence, France where Sparrow was an instructor in the Cleveland Institute of Art's junior year abroad program in 1989. Before earning an MFA degree in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, Sparrow was the recipient of honors with a Skowhegan residency, a fellowship for a National Gallery of Art internship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is in such collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, the William Benton Museum of the University of Connecticut and Mary Lou and George B. (Spike) Bietzel, Chappaqua, NY.
