Forest Fire, Jan. 5, 1984
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Forest Fire, Jan. 5, 1984” now? Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
This multipanel work, showing a raging forest fire, belongs to Donald Sultan’s Disaster Painting series. Sultan layers tar, vinyl, latex, and plaster to create ominous landscapes of industrial and environmental destruction. Dripping tar forms skeletal trees and muddies the gray sky. Orange latex licks at dead branches, engulfs trees in flames, and peels from the linoleum surface. Drawing on source imagery from newspapers, the Disaster Painting series speaks to, in the artist’s words, the “impermanence of all things.”
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Details
- Accession number
- 2017.126.d
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Donald Sultan/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
