NATALIE CHARKOW HOLLANDER American
Charkow Hollander looks at the art of
(top) After Poussin c. 1980 Limestone
painting that shows an assemblage of
the past as inspiration for the art of the present. Here she interprets Nicolas Poussin’s Parnassus, a 17th-century allegorical figures who take inspiration from the muse of the arts—the font of all creativity—represented as a reclining female nude. Like Poussin’s painting, Charkow Hollander’s carved and cast
Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of Larry Day and Ruth Fine, 2017
sculptures are structured around the flow of the water that emanates from the nude. A variety of shapes
(bottom) After Poussin 1981 Bronze
and surface textures approximate the
Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2014
Charkow Hollander was born and raised
painting’s stage-like space in the shallow three dimensions of relief, offering contemporary figurative narratives on a grand theme.
in Philadelphia and attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. After serving on the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Art for thirteen years from 1959 to 1972, she went on to teach in the MFA programs at the Yale School of Art, the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, and New York Studio School. Charkow Hollander lives and works in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and her work is included in museum collections across the country and around the world. 21