Bird at Window
/Robert Remsen Vickrey
1975
American, 1926-2011
Egg tempera on panel
Gift of the Vickrey Estate, made possible by Harmon-Meek Gallery
Florida Southern College Permanent Collection FP.2018.16.8
In this emotionally expressive painting, we see a girl seated, leaning back in a chair, looking out the window behind her and observing a bird, who flutters on just the other side of the glass. The limited palette of blue and yellow tones in the work convey a solemn, almost sullen air, echoed in the expression on the girl’s face, while the randomly floating yellow balloons encourage a surrealistic and dreamy read on the scene as a whole. Seen through your unique lens, what story do you think Vickrey is trying to tell here?