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White Abstraction
White Abstraction

White Abstraction

Artist American, 1907 - 1981
Date1934-1935
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions27 3/16 in x 19 in
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1972.5
DescriptionA non-objective arrangement of black lines (mostly straight) on a now off-white and grey background, with seven planes of flat color (light brown, cadmium red, turquoise, violet, grey-green, yellow (2)) in the clustered area slightly upper left of center; the black lines and colored shapes created an interlocking assortment of polygons, triangles, and trapezoids; the lines are from 1/8" to 1/2" wide and transverse the canvas at various angles
On View
Not on view
Collections
Circle
Ilya Bolotowsky
not after 1961
Abstract Figures
DE HIRSH MARGULES, 1899-1965
1942.
Dipper
Hisatsinom (Anasazi)
900 - 1300
Dipper
Hisatsinom (Anasazi)
AD 850 - 950
Head of Margules/Abstract
ARSHILE GORKY/D. MARGULES/I. NOGUCHI
1939
Day and Night
Jennifer Bartlett
1978
Lamp
Egypt
4 - 7 AD
Doll house and furniture
John Langden Whitten
1864-1876