Larry Day, The Bridge Game

Date
c. 1963
Medium
Pen and black ink and black and brown wash on paper
Credit Line
Gift of the Larry Day Art Trust in honor of Stephen Kerzner, 2021
Dimensions
10 ⅝ x 13 ⅝ in.

Among the earliest of Day’s figurative drawings is the Bridge Game series. Here the artist establishes his fascination with social ritual and the relationships between individuals within a group as structured by the rules of a game. The elements at play include the players, the context of the architectural space, and the degree to which line and shading foreground different dimensions of the subject. Day was interested in gaming as a metaphor for life. Similarly, Day’s bridge game and other gaming imagery are metaphors for social structures and relationships.

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