Zebra Woman
Date2016
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection
Object number2022.178
DescriptionStill going strong at the age of 88, James Strombotne is an acclaimed figural artist, visual storyteller and romantic visionary, whose colorful paintings reverberate with his own idiosyncratic worldview. The Anaheim-based artist was born in Watertown, South Dakota in 1934, and raised in Southern California. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to travel in Italy, and at age 27 received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Rome. He achieved instant success with his first one-man show in Beverly Hills in 1958, and since then has had more than 70 solo shows, including nine major retrospectives. Says Strombotne: “My world is full of drama and visions…I am witch doctor, shaman and high priest. I am also a heretic and consummate outsider, the eternal enfant terrible.”
Strombotne’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums across the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of American Art (NYC), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.), the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Chicago Art Museum, as well as the Hilbert Museum.
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