The Cape family
Peter LANYON: artist
Lanyon was interested in representing the totality of our experience of the landscape. As he said, 'I am trying to paint my environment both inside and out'. In Cape family, he expresses this by locating a family deep within a floating, abstracted representation of the mining area of Cape Cornwall. The mother is on the right, the father is on the left and the children are nestled in the centre.
Title
The Cape family
Artist/Maker and role
Peter LANYON: artist
Date
1949
Medium
oil on hardboard
Measurements
183 x 122 cm (sight)
196.0 x 133.5 cm (frame)
196.0 x 133.5 cm (frame)
Credit line
Purchased 1974
© Peter Lanyon 1949
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1974/00P6