Frances, You Always Fall on Your Feet
Date1997
MediumAcrylic, collage, and pencil on folded Rives etching paper
DimensionsFramed: 18 7/8 × 26 1/8 inches (47.9 × 66.4 cm)
Portfolio/Series"Savannah Diary" series
MarkingsStamped in blue ink on the back top center of stretcher: "S[indecipherable] FRAME / KAR[indecipherable] MATSUDA / IRLAN HUANG / 270 BOWERY 2ND FL / N.Y., N.Y. 10012 / 212-986-9673";
Stamped in blue ink on the back left center of the frame: "SQUID FRAMES / KARL MATSUDA, / ARLAN HUANG / 270 BOWERY 2ND FL / N.Y., N.Y. 10012 / 212-966-9673"
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1999.2.2
Copyright© Frances Hynes.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextThis work was taken from Frances Hynes’ Savannah Diaries series, about 20 works on paper completed over a year while the artist was teaching an Introduction to Drawing course at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She recalled: “At the time, with a heavy teaching schedule and responsibilities at the college, I did not have much time for my own artwork. I used whatever came my way and wrote the mundane and sometimes philosophical ideas that traversed throughout my mind … I just tried to make a few marks each day.”
Using materials readily available, Hynes layered paints, texts, inks, images, and colors, even affixing a student’s discarded practice sketch in the lower right section of the composition. The resulting object can be compared to a map only fully decipherable by the artist herself.
