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Helen Lundeberg
Microcosm and Macrocosm1937

Not on view
Vertical surrealist oil painting with a large female figure holding a hand mirror at left, overlooking a seascape containing circled vignettes of a ringed planet, a nebula, floating white rabbits, and small skeletal figures
Artist or Maker
Helen Lundeberg
United States, Illinois, Chicago, active Los Angeles, 1908-1999
Title
Microcosm and Macrocosm
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1937
Medium
Oil on Masonite
Dimensions
34 x 19 1/2 in. (86.36 × 49.53 cm) Framed: 37 × 19 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (93.98 × 49.53 × 4.13 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr.
Accession Number
M.2003.50
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Kinkel, Marianne. "Cosmic Allegories: Post-Surrealism and Astronomy in Interwar Los Angeles." The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 14 (2018). http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol14_2018_kinkel.
  • Duncan, Michael, and Sharrissa Iqbal, editors. Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Art Museum, 2024.