Places of the Heart #17, 2009. Prilla Smith Brackett (b. 1942). Oil and acrylic on board. Gift of the Artist, 2009.126.
The New Britain Museum of American Art is proud to announce two new acquisitions: Places of the Heart #17 by Prilla Smith Brackett and Summer View from Painter Hill Road by Tom Yost.
A New England native who grew up in West Hartford, Prilla Smith Brackett has created multiple series of conceptual landscape paintings, prints, and drawings over the last 18 years. Many of her paintings, such as Places of the Heart #17, juxtapose old-growth forests with domestic furniture. This contrast between man and nature is central to her themes of uncertainty, narrative, and memory, which she explains in the following statement: (more…)
