Double Portrait (Gay Flag), 1993
Oil on canvas with collage
108 1/8 x 72 1/4 in. (274.6 x 183.5 cm)
Purchase, gift through the estate of Francis A. Jennings, in memory of his wife Gertrude Feder Jennings
2000-15 ' ; $object_caption = 'Ross Bleckner
Double Portrait (Gay Flag), 1993
Oil on canvas with collage

2000-15 ' ; $object_summary = 'Influenced by the formal coolness of Op Art and painters such as Jasper Johns, Bleckner experimented in the early 1980\'s with vertical stripe paintings. However, by infusing them with autobiographical narrative elements such as the rainbow flag and Jewish star — which emerges from the top center of the painting — he creates a provocative dissonance between references to his own identity as a gay Jewish man and the customarily cool, detached style of modernist art.'; ?>