Artwork description:

This is an original oil painting on a solarized gelatin silver print photograph by American artist Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO). The image is 9.5” high by 7.5” wide. The work is mounted on board. The subject is a close-up female portrait showing only the model’s face. It is a young woman with large almond eyes. The entire picture plane has been painted with textures in blue and overlaid with translucent strips and shadowed strokes. The palette is almost monochrome in gray-blue, self-framed in a melon border. The work is titled “Jill Fading In.” It is in pristine condition and signed front lower right by the artist. (The image of work framed is for sizing perspective only.)

De La Cruz has been a full-time professional fine artist since 1975. He was the subject of a museum-wide retrospective at Denver's Museo de las Americas in 2015-2016. He is listed among the three dozen most influential regional artists of the twentieth century in a Denver Post survey of regional curators and proved the bestselling artist at the first International Latino Art Auction in Phoenix, AZ. The Denver Art Museum's first purchase of a living Hispanic's work for its permanent collection was a De La Cruz. Years later, he was the only artist considered when that same museum wanted to commission a major, contemporary digital work commemorating the opening of its new Libeskind Building. De La Cruz was the recipient of back-to-back artist-in-residency grants from Colorado in his early career and received as well their very last painting fellowship. Other honors include award of Best Art Event of the Year by Westword Magazine and appointment to Denver’s Commission on Arts and Culture. For further information, please see the artist’s extensive website.

Materials used:

oil on solarized gelatin silver print

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