Herman Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix:

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" Herman Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix: "
Cynthia Fowler

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081541
Doc. No	:	LA125170
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852911X596264‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Cynthia Fowler
Title & Author	:	Herman Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix: [Article] : A Case Study\ Cynthia Fowler
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/5
Page No	:	628–647
Abstract	:	American modern artist Herman Trunk (1894–1963) serves as a noteworthy case study in a consideration of the relationship between religion and American modern art in the first half of the twentieth century. One of his few overtly religious works, Crucifix (c. 1930), stands out for its intriguing convergence of a most important Catholic subject with Cubist art. This essay examines Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix in relation to other Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings created around the same time period. Trunk’s Crucifix is unique among abstract paintings of religious subjects in the artist’s distinctive use of Cubism to create a quiet meditation on the crucified Christ. In some respects affirming the long tradition of Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings, Crucifix also counters those traditions to provide an alternative perspective on the Crucifix as a subject. Through his Crucifix painting, Trunk successfully brings together two traditions that historically have been viewed as diametrically opposed—Catholicism and Cubist abstraction—to produce a devotional image of the Crucifix as a form of veneration. American modern artist Herman Trunk (1894–1963) serves as a noteworthy case study in a consideration of the relationship between religion and American modern art in the first half of the twentieth century. One of his few overtly religious works, Crucifix (c. 1930), stands out for its intriguing convergence of a most important Catholic subject with Cubist art. This essay examines Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix in relation to other Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings created around the same time period. Trunk’s Crucifix is unique among abstract paintings of religious subjects in the artist’s distinctive use of Cubism to create a quiet meditation on the crucified Christ. In some respects affirming the long tradition of Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings, Crucifix also counters those traditions to provide an alternative perspective on the Crucifix as a subject. Through his Crucifix painting, Trunk successfully brings together two traditions that historically have been viewed as diametrically opposed—Catholicism and Cubist abstraction—to produce a devotional image of the Crucifix as a form of veneration.
Descriptor	:	abstraction
Descriptor	:	American art
Descriptor	:	Catholic art
Descriptor	:	Crucifixion paintings
Descriptor	:	Cubism
Descriptor	:	Herman Trunk
Descriptor	:	modern art
Descriptor	:	religious art
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852911X596264‬