Sur le Flat-Iron / Albert Gleizes
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.172
- Title
- Sur le Flat-Iron
- Artist
- Albert Gleizes
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1953
- Medium and Support
- graphite, ink, gouache, and white heightening on tannish-gray wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1916
- 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
- Gift of Herbert Barrows
- Style/Group/Movement
- Futurism
- Inscription
- Signed and dated in black ink, l.r.: AlbGleizes/New York/ "Sur le flat iron" 16
- Dimensions
- 27.2 cm x 21.1 cm (10 11/16 in. x 8 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- cityscape
- Physical Description
- Ink and gouache drawing in black, gray and white on tan paper with tall vertical structure at center of composition rendered in a series of quick vertical and diagonal lines.
- Subject Matter
- Drawing depicting the landmark Flatiron Building at Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street in New York City. Designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and built in 1902, the triangular building was the first structure in New York with a steel frame and is one of New York’s oldest surviving skyscrapers. Gleizes takes a Cubist and Futurist approach in his representation of the building, revealing multiple perspectives of the edifice simultaneously on a single picture plane, while systematically dismantling and rhythmically reorganizing its structure.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1792 x 2304
- File Size
- 549 KB
- Record
- 2000/2.172
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2000-sl-2.172/2000_2.172.jpg
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"Sur le Flat-Iron; Albert Gleizes." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2000-sl-2.172/2000_2.172.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 17, 2024.
