Facing the Future1995Each: 64 1/4 x 37 3/4 x 3/4 " (163.2 x 95.9 x 1.9 cm)
Overall: 64 1/4 x 75 1/2 x 3/4 " (163.2 x 191.8 x 1.9 cm)Oil on canvas, wood armatureGift of Ben and Barbara Cohen2025.3.1a,b015797093162025.3.1Shirley CohenPaintingshttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041Forest HillsForest HillsUnited StatesNew YorkPaintingsRecent AcquisitionsAdam ReichForest HillsObject information is a work in progress and may be updated
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgFacing the Future portrays her two grandsons next to their imagined future selves—astronauts, entwined in the dazzling glow of an architectural form reminiscent of a spaceship. Stretched across four vertical canvases, each figure inhabits his own delimited space. In the background, their parents look on.4 canvas panels stretched over 2 wooden folding screensFacing the future1995Oil on four canvas panels.Each 55" x 19"Total dimensions55"h x 76"wThis painting was painted while Shirley Cohen's Grand children were still very young , as shown in the paintings outer panels. On the left is David as a child, on the right is Jesse, each with the animals they seem to favor. In the background their physician parents are depicted. In the center the two boys are shown as grown men and the spaceship in the central foreground represents the 'space men' they will develop into.from Shirleycohen.comhttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster13041http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster130412025.3.119951995 2025 3 1a b Object information is a work in progress and may be updated
with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art
Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgFacing the Future portrays her two grandsons next to their imagined future selves—astronauts, entwined in the dazzling glow of an architectural form reminiscent of a spaceship. Stretched across four vertical canvases, each figure inhabits his own delimited space. In the background, their parents look on.4 canvas panels stretched over 2 wooden folding screensFacing the future1995Oil on four canvas panels.Each 55" x 19"Total dimensions55"h x 76"wThis painting was painted while Shirley Cohen's Grand children were still very young , as shown in the paintings outer panels. On the left is David as a child, on the right is Jesse, each with the animals they seem to favor. In the background their physician parents are depicted. In the center the two boys are shown as grown men and the spaceship in the central foreground represents the 'space men' they will develop into.from Shirleycohen.com