Painting and Sculpture
Arnold Comes of Age
Arnold Comes of Age (originally Portrait of Arnold Pyle) is a 1930 oil painting by the American regionalist painter Grant Wood, created as a birthday gift for his studio assistant, Arnold Pyle. Wood took Pyle on as his protégé and was deeply affectionate towards him. The painting depicts a figure looking ahead in a rural landscape, as two nude men bathe in a river. It is reminiscent of Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca's work, in particular The Resurrection, and it is interpreted as homoerotic from its detailing.
Also on this shelf
An Old Woman Dozing.
Carnegie Museum of Art.
See also
- ▸Adoration of the Magi (Velázquez)
- ▸Aid to the Church in Need
- ▸Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel)
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