Untitled
/John Briggs
1989
American, b. 1948
Oil on board
Museum Purchase through the Kent Harrison Memorial Acquisition Fund
Polk Museum of Art Permanent Collection 1990.94
Briggs offers us no help solving the riddle of this triptych with his title for this set of three paintings intended to be hung side by side as a single work of art. Maybe you can envision the connective narrative tissue between the three pictures? How do the running man at left, the skeleton in the middle (who returns our gaze upon him), and the strange landscape at right relate to each other to tell a complete story? What themes or messages can you draw from this odd trio? Look closely at all the details Briggs presents. If you can spin a convincing tale, you are a master storyteller.