{"id":13336,"date":"2020-04-08T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?p=13336"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:14:43","slug":"oh-dear-my-experiences-with-deer-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2020\/04\/08\/oh-dear-my-experiences-with-deer-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Dear! (My Experiences with Deer Woman)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a Collections Management Intern with the Bates\nCollege Museum of Art, I examine works of art that the museum has acquired\nquite closely, and I get to see a lot of interesting things. Recently, I have\nbeen working with a large gift of drawings and paintings by Swedish-American\nartist Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a close friend of Lewiston, Maine native Marsden\nHartley. This gift of over ninety works was donated to the museum in 2018 by\nthe Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, when cataloguing some of Sprinchorn\u2019s works,\nI came across an odd drawing of his. At first glance, it seemed just your\ntypical nude study of a figure in motion, but upon closer examination I noted\nthat the figure was in fact not human! And the background was not some\nnondescript amalgamation of green shades, but a forest. I opened up the\npreliminary file on the drawing in the museum\u2019s collection database, EmbARK\nand, with my mouth agape and eyes wide, read the title: Deer Woman<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carl Sprinchorn, Deer Woman (Study for Hunter’s Dream)<\/em>, pastel on gray paper, Gift of the Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society, 2018.5.55 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While Sprinchorn\u2019s subject matter typically ranged\nfrom mountain landscapes to lumberjacks at work, it was quite surprising to me\nto see a forest animal and woman blended together. What possibly could have\nbeen going through his mind when he sketched this? Was it a dream? A nightmare?\nI hypothesized about this for another 20 minutes or so, querying Curator Bill\nLow and Collections Manager Corie Audette about it \u00ad\u00ad\u00adconstantly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I still may not know the exact reasoning for this peculiar forest creature, I love that I had the opportunity to inspect this unusual artwork up close and to try to assemble its story. Take a look at the image yourself and see what I mean. Working as an intern in the museum for the first time this past semester has certainly caught me in the headlights, and I\u2019m hanging on for deer life, but I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridget Thompson ’22
Art & Visual Culture and History Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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