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Maceptaw Bogun
Maceptaw Bogun was a self-taught artist known for using phosphorescent paint to create images that change in appearance between normal light and darkness.
Maceptaw Bogun quick facts
Bogun's self-taught practice includes landscapes made with phosphorescent paint, whose appearance shifts between ordinary illumination and darkness.
| Full name | Maceptaw Bogun |
|---|---|
| Born | 1917 · New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 1995 · New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Movements | Self-taught art |
| Paint types | Oil paint · Glow-in-the-dark paint (analysis of one work found a phosphorescent coating that glowed for more than two hours) |
| Other media | — |
| Other materials | — |
| Painting surfaces | Canvas |
| Painting methods | Building textured oil-paint layers and adding phosphorescent passages that reveal a night image in darkness |
| Common subjects | Woodland landscapes, chapels, natural settings, changing light, and day-to-night transformations |
| Notable works | Chapel In-The Fall-Wood |
Sources: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rev. Maceptaw Bogun, Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chapel In-The Fall-Wood, and Smithsonian conservation analysis.
Paint types used by Maceptaw Bogun
Maceptaw Bogun used Oil paint, Glow-in-the-dark paint; examples below link these media to named works and explain their role in image-making.
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Oil paint
The Smithsonian American Art Museum records Bogun’s Chapel In-The Fall-Wood (1969) as oil on canvas. The painting’s landscape and religious subject are built in the oil medium, documenting a conventional painted layer before conservators identified an additional phosphorescent coating. The conservation report documents this coating separately.
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Glow-in-the-dark paint
Bogun added phosphorescent paint to Chapel In-The Fall-Wood, as Smithsonian conservators found during analysis. The luminous passages were designed to glow in darkness, although the exact pigment identification remains uncertain. This unusual material is documented in the same painting as the oil image, not generalized across all his canvases.
Sources: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rev. Maceptaw Bogun, Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chapel In-The Fall-Wood, and Smithsonian conservation analysis.
Painting surfaces used by Maceptaw Bogun
Documented works by Maceptaw Bogun use Canvas, with examples below clarifying when a material is a painted ground, backing, or constructed element.
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Canvas
Bogun’s landscape and religious paintings, including Chapel In-The Fall-Wood, are documented as oil on canvas in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection. In that work, canvas carries both the painted image and phosphorescent passages added for a different viewing condition.
Sources: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rev. Maceptaw Bogun, Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chapel In-The Fall-Wood, Smithsonian conservation analysis.
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