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Crookhey Hall

Close up of Crookhey Hall

Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.
Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.
Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall, 1986; Lithograph on paper, 15 1/8 x 30 3/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of the artist; © 2023 Leonora Carrington/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Artwork Details

  • Artist

    Leonora Carrington

  • Title

    Crookhey Hall

  • Date

    1986

  • Medium

    Lithograph on paper

  • Dimensions

    15 1/8 x 30 3/4 in.

  • Donor Credit

    Gift of the artist

  • Image Credit

    © 2023 Leonora Carrington/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • On Display

    No

The Artist, Leonora Carrington

Through her paintings and sculptures, Leonora Carrington often explored notions of femininity in the whimsical, dreamlike style of Surrealism.
Black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult woman with dark curly hair. She sits with her back to the viewer, looking over her left shoulder, her face in profile, surrounded by art supplies. A painting of nuns in a boat on rough seas sits on an easel in front of her.