Coward
1993 · Pencil on paper
30 1/4 x 22 3/4" (76.8 x 57.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Peter Cain
1959
PaintingSurrealismRealismHyperrealism
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4
Works in Collection
40
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5
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80%
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- • Surrealism
- • Realism
- • Hyperrealism
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Peter Cain painted meticulously rendered automobiles transformed into surreal, grotesque hybrids that merged Photorealism with Surrealist distortion. Working in the 1990s before his death in 1996, he completed sixty-three paintings that positioned the car as a site of psychological and formal rupture.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Parsons School of Design
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