Image: Stark Museum of Art, Orange
‘The Color Orange’ explores the history, uses and effects of orange through works in the Stark Museum of Art’s collection spanning the 1500s to the 2000s. Examples from European, American and American Indian artists reveal orange’s roles in exploring nature, creating vibrant imagery and evoking emotions.
The exhibition includes seven immersive experiences that invite visitors to engage with orange through Pantone-inspired doors, orange paint glowing under blacklight, colored filters, natural dyes and pigments, and a color vision-deficient lens. The experiences present different ways to see and interpret color through interactive encounters.
Hands-on activities offer every visitor an opportunity to react to and create with orange.
Among the listed works is Nicolai Fechin’s ‘Lola (Mrs. Triana), Spanish Dancer,’ an undated oil painting on canvas. Dorothy Doughty’s ‘Orange Blossom Sprays,’ made by Royal Worcester Porcelain Company in 1947, is hand-painted porcelain.
The evidence also lists an unidentified Zia Pueblo artist’s ‘Water Jar with tall-necked bird with head plumes,’ made around 1880 from clay with white slip and black and red pigments. Another listed work is an unidentified Diné (Navajo) ‘Blanket’ from 1900–1910, made with natural handspun wool and commercial dyes.
