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- Title
- Begin the Beguine
- Artist
- Max Beckmann
- Physical Description
- Interior composition with male and female dancers positioned at center with seated female at lower left, standing male on crutches at right and a group of birds in the leftmost background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1884-1950
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1946
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.103
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- birds
- cabarets
- crutches
- dancers
- expressionism
- expressionist
- music
- Title
- Woman's Head (Kopf)
- Artist
- Alexei Jawlensky
- Artist Life Dates
- 1864-1941
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1921-1922
- Accession Number
- 1953/2.3
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bust-length
- child
- children
- head
- portraits
- woman
- Title
- In Prison
- Artist
- George Grosz
- Artist Life Dates
- 1893-1959
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1918
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.224
- Medium and Support
- pen (reed?) and ink on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bread
- ink
- interiors
- males
- seated
- table
- window
- Title
- Studio Interior with Bottles (L'atelier aux bouteilles)
- Artist
- Alberto Giacometti
- Artist Life Dates
- (Borgonova, Switzerland, 10/10/1901 - 1/11/1966, Chur, Switzerland)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1901-1961
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.49
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- book
- bottle
- chairs
- interiors
- sculpture
- table
- vessels
- Title
- Song of Sentient Beings #1612
- Artist
- Bill Jacobson
- Physical Description
- Blurred image of a male nude figure bending forward from a standing position so that his hands nearly touch the ground.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1955
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1995
- Accession Number
- 1999/1.102
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- aids
- bending
- figures
- gelatin silver prints
- nudes
- Title
- Mining Town
- Artist
- Blanche Grambs
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1916
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Accession Number
- 1943.43
- Medium and Support
- softground etching on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- buildings
- factory
- fences
- mine
- road
- walking
- wpa
- Title
- Haystack
- Artist
- Eleanor Coen
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1916
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1941
- Accession Number
- 1943.18
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- barns
- cows
- farmyards
- hills
- ladders
- trees
- wpa
- Title
- Harlem Dancers
- Artist
- Elizabeth Olds
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896-1991
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1939
- Accession Number
- 1943.100
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- dancers
- entertainment
- groups
- interiors
- males
- standing
- wpa
- Title
- Stringed Reclining Figure
- Artist
- Henry Moore
- Physical Description
- Abstracted human figure reclining on its side. Eight strings resembling the strings of a harp extend from the chest area to the hip.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898 - 1986
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1939
- Accession Number
- 1968/1.98
- Medium and Support
- bronze and string on wood base
- relevance
- rank 3.30684
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- bronzes
- figures (representations)
- reclining
- stringed instruments
- Title
- Pastoral
- Artist
- Edwin Scharff
- Artist Life Dates
- 1887-1955
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1887-1955
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.22
- Medium and Support
- etching on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- baby
- child
- cliffs
- males
- mother
- mountains
- reading
- seated
- Title
- At the Crossroads (En Rade)
- Artist
- Max Ernst
- Physical Description
- Three birds, executed with spare line and simple form, are set within an abstracted landscape of bright yellows and oranges.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1891 - 1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1955
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.414
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- birds
- oil painting
- sky
- sunlight
- surrealism
- surrealist
- Title
- Growing Forms
- Artist
- David Smith
- Physical Description
- A roughly teardrop-shaped sculpture of shiny cast aluminum. Within the basic organic shape are several curls and a shape that appears to be a woman or perhaps a fetus. The sculpture sits atop a tall wooden base composed of a stack of fat disc shapes.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1906-1965
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1939
- Accession Number
- 1980/1.213A
- Medium and Support
- cast aluminum on wood base
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- biomorphic abstraction
- births
- figures (representations)
- growth
- metal
- sculpture
- surrealist
- Title
- Chess Set (Board)
- Artist
- Victor Vasarely
- Physical Description
- Acrylic chess set. The playing pieces are of various geometric shapes. The board and the space that surrounds it are covered with a colorful grid pattern, which each square filled with a circle.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1908 - 1997
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1980
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.86II
- Medium and Support
- acrylic sculpture
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- checker pattern
- chessboards
- chessmen
- geometric abstraction
- molding
- op art
- Title
- Scholarly Occupations and The Three Friends (Pine, Plum, Bamboo)
- Artist
- Ikeno Taiga
- Artist Life Dates
- 1723-1776
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/1.175
- Medium and Support
- one of pair a of 6-fold screens, ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bamboo
- child
- figures
- japan
- pines
- plum tree
- screen
- Title
- South Polar Quadrille
- Artist
- John Tunnard
- Artist Life Dates
- 1900-1971
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1947
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.49
- Medium and Support
- ink, colored crayons, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- aurora australis
- automaton
- mannequins
- skeletons
- south pole
- surrealism
- Title
- Trombone Player
- Artist
- Frederick W. Becker
- Artist Life Dates
- 1888-1974
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1937
- Accession Number
- 1943.9
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- entertainment
- guitars
- music
- musical instruments
- musicians
- trombones
- wpa
- Title
- M.L.K. Jr.
- Artist
- Chaim Gross
- Artist Life Dates
- born Austria, 1904 - 1991
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 1996/2.5
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on moderately textured cream BFK Rives wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- birds
- bust-length
- figures
- martin luther king, jr.
- Title
- Guitar Player
- Artist
- Frederick W. Becker
- Artist Life Dates
- 1888-1974
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Accession Number
- 1943.6
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- guitars
- males
- music
- musical instruments
- musicians
- seated
- wpa
- Title
- Chess Set (Chess Pieces and Base of Table)
- Artist
- Victor Vasarely
- Physical Description
- Acrylic chess set. The playing pieces are of various geometric shapes. The board and the space that surrounds it are covered with a colorful grid pattern in shades of blues and purples,.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1908 - 1997
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1980
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.86A-EE & HH
- Medium and Support
- acrylic sculpture
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- checker pattern
- chessboards
- chessmen
- geometric abstraction
- molding
- op art
- Title
- Two Women
- Artist
- Ernst Kirchner
- Artist Life Dates
- 1880-1938
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1910
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.164
- Medium and Support
- Color crayons on thin smooth cream wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- elephants
- nudes
- riders, horseback
- seated
- standing
- trees
- vessels
- Title
- Scholarly Occupations and The Three Friends (Pine, Plum, Bamboo)
- Artist
- Ikeno Taiga
- Artist Life Dates
- 1723-1776
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/1.174
- Medium and Support
- one of a pair of 6-fold screens, ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.27238
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bamboo
- child
- figures
- japan
- pines
- plum tree
- screen
- Title
- Roof Scene
- Artist
- Isami Doi
- Artist Life Dates
- 1903-1978
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Accession Number
- 1943.31
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.23863
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- atmospheric effects
- buildings
- clothed
- clouds
- roof
- standing
- wind
- wpa
- Title
- Eight Views of Ômi: #2 Night Rain at Karasaki
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- Vertical lines stream downward across the print indicate torrents of rain. The dark color pallette and black strip across the top indicate that the image is set at night. A giant tree on an island looms over the image, surrounded by water. A poem in the upper left corner reads:
- "Elsewhere will they talk of the music of the evening breeze
- that has made the pine of Karasaki famous; the voice of the
- wind is not heard through the sound of the rain in the night."
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1834
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.135
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.23863
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- landscapes (environments)
- pine (tree)
- rain and rainfall
- ukiyo-e
- woodblock prints
- Title
- Hiroshima Series
- Artist
- Jacob Lawrence
- Artist Life Dates
- 1917 - 2000
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.533.3
- Medium and Support
- screenprint, printed in eleven colors on Somerset soft-white paper
- relevance
- rank 3.23863
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- birds
- figures
- hills
- rock
- rocks
- seated
- skulls (skeleton components)
- Title
- The Snake Charmer
- Artist
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Physical Description
- Geometrically patterned composition with bright saturated colors composed of a central female figure with mermaid’s tail and bright red mane of hair; skull-headed figure at left with guitar; two green monster-like figures in upper right quadrant; two black fish with blue eyes near center.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1886 - 1980
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1907-1908
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.180
- Medium and Support
- tempera on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.20557
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- demons
- expressionist
- fish
- males
- mermaid
- monsters
- musical instrument
- snakes
- standing
- Title
- Durango I
- Artist
- Sean Scully
- Physical Description
- Rectangles of offwhite and blue-grey, of various sizes, arranged on a grid.
- Artist Life Dates
- active b. 1945
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1991
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.54
- Medium and Support
- spitbite aquatint on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.20557
- Primary Keywords
- aquatints
- color-field
- geometric abstraction
- grids (patterns)
- minimal
- rectangles
- spit biting
- Title
- Pop Dots
- Artist
- Barbara Levine
- Physical Description
- Abstract shape rendered in Styrofoam that has been covered with modeling compound. Base with four columns, three of which have “pop dots” attached to them. Partially painted a bright minty green, which gets darker in the “back” of the sculpture (the side that doesn’t have dots).
- Artist Life Dates
- (1953 - )
- Object Creation Date
- 1988
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.243
- Medium and Support
- oil on modeling compound-covered Styrofoam
- relevance
- rank 3.17317
- Primary Keywords
- atolls
- bastarda
- biomorphic abstraction
- dots
- object art
- painting techniques by application method
- pop
- Title
- Akbar's Bounty
- Artist
- Michael Mode
- Physical Description
- A wide-mouthed bowl narrows steeply to a small base. A brown and white checker board pattern covers the interior and exterior and scales down as the diameter decreases toward the bottom.
- wood bowl with geometric patterning in concentric rings, decreasing in size top to bottom
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1946
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.166
- Medium and Support
- holly and morado
- relevance
- rank 3.14143
- Primary Keywords
- appropriation
- bowls (vessels)
- checker pattern
- geometric abstraction
- mughal styles
- wood (plant material)
- woodworking
- Title
- Pferderennen (Racetrack)
- Artist
- Rudolf Grossmann
- Artist Life Dates
- 1882 - 1941
- Century
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.198
- Medium and Support
- graphite on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.14143
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- buildings
- clouds
- entertainers
- entertainment
- figures
- half-length
- horses
- jared sparks
- portraits
- woman
- Title
- Playskool Gym, from the Playskool series
- Artist
- Frank Stella
- Physical Description
- Wall relief sculpture created from wood, irregularly shaped metal objects, and found objects—including steel rods, ratcheted discs and a paintbrush.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- 1989/2.1
- Medium and Support
- patinated cast bronze, fabricated aluminum, wood, steel, plastic, screenprint
- relevance
- rank 3.11031
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- found objects
- junk sculpture
- neo-dada
- play (recreation)
- pop art
- toys (recreational artifacts)
- Title
- Sandcastle
- Artist
- Anne Truitt
- Physical Description
- A long, low rectangular with a painted band of green extends around the rectangle at floor level. The upper half is painted off-white. About three fourths of the length is uniform. The other quarter, at the viewer's right, has several features: two depressed areas, and two raised areas, which are painted in a brighter white.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1921-2004
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1963
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.57
- Medium and Support
- acrylic on wood
- relevance
- rank 3.11031
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- acrylic painting (visual work)
- childhood
- minimal
- play (recreation)
- sand
- wood (sculpture by material)
- Title
- Handstand
- Artist
- Erich Heckel
- Physical Description
- Print featuring a stage with a figure of a man with his feet touching his head while doing a handstand on a small table flanked by two chairs. His large shadow is cast on the wall behind him. The head and hands of a conductor are visible in the lower right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1883-1970
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1916
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.20
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.07981
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- acrobats
- crowds
- entertainers
- expressionism
- expressionist
- hand
- males
- performing artists
- screen
- shadow
- shadows
- stage
- surrealism
- Title
- Seven Aquatints
- Artist
- Robert Mangold
- Physical Description
- This work is a dark gold square. Within this color area is a circle outlined in green, that touches all four edges of the square, and a smaller square outlined in white.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1937
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1973
- Accession Number
- 1999/1.104.1
- Medium and Support
- aquatint printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- geometric patterns
- geometric shapes
- intaglio prints
- Title
- Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- March 28, 1934
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.67
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- cubist
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- reading
- women
- Title
- Black Boomerang and Polygons
- Artist
- Alexander Calder
- Physical Description
- A base composed of a red section that lies on the floor and a black section that rises to narrow point. On the point rests the moving part of the "mobile"--one arm extends out and ends in a black boomerang; the other extends out then attaches to a vertical arm that has yellow polygons on either end.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898 - 1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1963
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.21
- Medium and Support
- aluminum, steel, brass, and paint
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- boomerang
- geometric abstraction
- geometric shapes
- minimal
- mobiles
- polygons
- Title
- Illuminated Landscape
- Artist
- Chet LaMore
- Physical Description
- Nocturnal scene with landscape populated by otherworldly pink, green, and blue flora and fauna resembling marine life or celestial bodies.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1908-1980
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.199
- Medium and Support
- casein on board
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- landscapes
- landscapes (environments)
- night
- plants
- surrealism
- surrealist
- Title
- Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
- Artist
- Jene Highstein
- Physical Description
- Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1942 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.232
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- biomorphic abstraction
- egg
- minimal
- preliminary sketches
- sketches
- stone
- Title
- Seven Aquatints
- Artist
- Robert Mangold
- Physical Description
- This work is a burnt orange square. Within this color area is a circle outlined in brown, that touches all four edges of the square, and a smaller square outlined in white.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1937
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1973
- Accession Number
- 1999/1.104.2
- Medium and Support
- aquatint printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- intaglio prints
- squares
- squares (geometric figures)
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Franz Kline
- Physical Description
- Abstract painting composed of long broad brushstrokes in black and white with a small area of red in the upper left quadrant.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1910 - 1962
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1961
- Accession Number
- 1988/1.136
- Medium and Support
- oil on cardboard mounted on board
- relevance
- rank 3.04092
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstract expressionist
- abstraction
- modern american styles and periods
- Title
- To Benjamin B.
- Artist
- Howard Ben Tré
- Physical Description
- Three large, rectangular blocks of translucent green glass hang in vertical succession on a newtwork of copper rods. The glass has bubbles embedded within it and shows evidence of the sandcasting process.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1949
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1980
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.116
- Medium and Support
- cast glass and copper
- relevance
- rank 3.03838
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- casting (process)
- glass
- glassworking and glassworking processes and techniques
- offspring
- Title
- Holocaust 6
- Artist
- Eduard Bargheer
- Physical Description
- A menage of female figures lie entangled together, painted in many different colors. Certain body parts appear identifiable and are emphasized with bleeding lines. In the background appears straight-lined brush strokes emoting a fence or barricade much like one would see within a concentration camp. Beneath the watery brushstrokes are thin, precise lines.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1901 - 1979
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1947
- Accession Number
- 1948/2.1
- Medium and Support
- watercolor and graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.03838
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- figures (illustrations)
- judaica
- judaism
- labor camps
- prison camps
- war
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- John Chamberlain
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1931-1997
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.120
- Medium and Support
- paper, aluminum foil, glue and painted resin
- relevance
- rank 3.03838
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- junk sculpture
- metal and metal products
- neo-dada
- pop art
- Title
- The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- A bull in the center charges to the left toward a horse rearing up with a bullfighter on its back. The bullfighter leans forward to plunge a spear into the bull's shoulder area. Flags and spectator stands lie in the background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1934
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.70
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.03838
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bullrings
- bulls
- cubist
- equestrians
- horses
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- Title
- Tacpere Maptom
- Artist
- Lynda Benglis
- Physical Description
- Hollow glass piece. The bottom half (whose end is flat and thus serves as a base) is a solid spring green separated by a band of translucent yellow. The top half is a darker olive green with a Kelly green stripe that winds from the yellow band at center to the hole at this end of the piece.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1941 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1985
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.223
- Medium and Support
- glass
- relevance
- rank 3.02870
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- biomorphic abstraction
- glassworking
- object genres by form
- post-minimalism
- sculpture by form
- Title
- Fire Engine Red
- Artist
- Dorothea Rockburne
- Physical Description
- Two large panels painted red panels of aluminum, situated against one another so that the seam is visible at center. A line of white runs along each panel's outer edge.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1932
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.136.1-2
- Medium and Support
- wrinkle finish paint (oil) on aluminum
- relevance
- rank 3.02870
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- acrylic painting (technique)
- acrylic paintings
- color-field
- fire engines
- minimal
- Title
- Drawing RIII 7 (Interlacing Triangles)
- Artist
- Bridget Riley
- Physical Description
- pencil drawing and gouache on paper
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1931
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.170
- Medium and Support
- gouache and pencil on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.02870
- Primary Keywords
- drawings
- geometric abstraction
- geometric shapes
- gouaches
- hard-edge
- op art
- triangles
- Title
- Abstract Form
- Artist
- Peter Voulkos
- Physical Description
- Large stoneware abstract sculpture with two balanced lateral crescent-shaped forms branching off a central conical structure. Brown with loosely-painted broad brushstrokes in black and incised decoration of rows of dots in a “stitching-like” pattern
- Artist Life Dates
- (1924 - 2002)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1960/1.181
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 3.02816
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstract expressionist
- abstraction
- ceramics
- sculpture
- vessels
- Title
- Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- Bust portrait of woman. Her hair is brown, shoulder length, and curls at the bottom. Her high-collared blouse has off-white and light blue vertical stripes. She looks directly at the viewer
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- February 28, 1949
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.68
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.01555
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- bust-length
- cubist
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- portraits
- wives
- woman
- women
- Title
- Still Life
- Artist
- Ben Nicholson
- Physical Description
- An angular bottle executed in two tones of white stands tall just to the (viewer's) right of center. To its left is a stack of gray drinking cups. Irregular blocks of various sizes and colors make up the rest of the field.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894-1982
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1945
- Accession Number
- 1951/2.25
- Medium and Support
- oil on board
- relevance
- rank 3.01555
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- bottle
- cubist
- cups
- flasks (bottles)
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- still lifes
- Title
- Broadway Melody
- Artist
- Mark Tobey
- Physical Description
- abstract painting, tempera on board
- Artist Life Dates
- 1890-1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1945
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.152
- Medium and Support
- tempera on board
- relevance
- rank 2.99898
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- calligraphy
- city
- cityscapes
- new york city