Jean Arp, 1949 / Arnold Newman
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1989/2.18
- Title
- Jean Arp, 1949
- Artist
- Arnold Newman
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1918-2006
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1949
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Dimensions
- 43 cm x 35.5 cm (16 15/16 in. x 14 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Photograph
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Physical Description
- Portrait of a man with his head resting on his hand showing only his right eye, cheek, forehead, hand and a bit of his shirt cuff with a curving unidentifiable vertical form to the right obscuring the sitter’s face.
- Subject Matter
- Photographic portrait of artist Jean Arp in extreme close-up exhibiting Newman’s signature style of incorporating undulating curves and smooth surfaces. Cropped to show only Arp’s his right eye, cheek, forehead, hand and a bit of his shirt cuff with a curving unidentifiable vertical form obscuring the sitter’s face, Newman infuses the photograph with modernist sensibility and abstract harmony.
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- upper body
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 739 x 963
- File Size
- 53 KB
- Record
- 1989/2.18
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1989-sl-2.18/1989_2.18.jpg
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"Jean Arp, 1949; Arnold Newman." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1989-sl-2.18/1989_2.18.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
