Artwork description:

This is an original oil painting with collage on a mounted gelatin silver print by American artist Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO). The work is a squarish format, 8” high by 9.25” wide. The framed size of the work is 16” high by 16” wide.
The subject is a surreal figurative scene, beginning with a young couple sparsely garbed as “mudmen” walking down a sidewalk. In front of them, seemingly emerging from the sidewalk is the head of a bearded man, seemingly in some distress. Expressive oil brushstrokes in sienna have been overlaid the entire scene with some yellow and darker brown added in a self-frame.
The work is titled “Stepping Out III.” It is in pristine condition and signed front lower right. The work is set in a broad white museum board with an embellished depth to the work, and framed with a simple mat black metal box frame, as shown, and is ready to hang.
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 & collage on mounted gelatin silver print

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