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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
Artist: Ernst, Max
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; birds; oil painting; sky; sunlight; surrealism; surrealist

Les roches interrompues; Max Ernst

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Title: Les roches interrompues
Artist: Max Ernst
Physical Description: This etching consists of an abstracted composition executed in loose lines with a more figural representation of a figure with its arms raised on the left accompanied by a more abstracted form in the center of the composition. The etching is printed on a heavily embossed surface made up of raised circular lines. There are passages of hand coloring on the figure on the left whose torso is colored in yellow and blue. Other small circles are colored in red on the form to the figure’s right.
Artist Life Dates: 1891-1976
Accession Number: 2012/2.188
Medium and Support: etching with embossing and hand-coloring on heavy wove paper
Artist: Ernst, Max
Primary Keywords: abstract; embossed prints; figures

Apollo - Series II; Don Fink

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Title: Apollo - Series II
Artist: Don Fink
Physical Description: Abstracted, organic shapes in black and gray tones flow through the top three-fourths of the composition. Some small, thumbnail like lines are embedded into the shapes in the center right. A small reddish-colored shape is in the middle of the composition.
Artist Life Dates: Born 1923
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.95
Medium and Support: aquatint on paper
Artist: Fink, Don
Primary Keywords: abstract

[shadow drawing for] Living Rooms - SouthWest - one; Julia Fish

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Title: [shadow drawing for] Living Rooms - SouthWest - one
Artist: Julia Fish
Physical Description: Work on white paper with rows of various shades of green forming a geometric image.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1950
Object Creation Date: 2002
Accession Number: 2014/2.4
Medium and Support: gouache on paper
Artist: Fish, Julia
Primary Keywords: abstract; line spacing; paintings

D&H Rogue; Richard Francisco

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Title: D&H Rogue
Artist: Richard Francisco
Physical Description: Ombre orange and black abstract forms painted on paper cut out and attached to wood, laid on top of another larger cutout of pink abstract form with “shadows” from the cutout above it painted in red; the paper collage is centered on a large sheet of white paper. Signed “D[orothy] & H[erb] Rogue” in bottom left corner, “R. J. Francisco ‘82” in bottom right corner.
Artist Life Dates: (1942 - )
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1982
Accession Number: 2008/2.229
Medium and Support: watercolor and ink wash on paper and painted wood
Artist: Francisco, Richard
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; collage; collages; geometric abstraction; painting techniques by medium; sketches; watercolors; wood (plant material)

Untitled; Tom Gibbs

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Tom Gibbs
Physical Description: Large rectangular and square forms clustered on top of each other in a random pattern, strong horizontal lines.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Object Creation Date: 1982
Accession Number: 2013/2.364
Medium and Support: welded steel
Artist: Gibbs, Tom
Primary Keywords: abstract; outdoor sculpture; sculpture by form

Untitled; Tom Gibbs

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Tom Gibbs
Physical Description: A large smooth dome with abstract fomrs extending from all sides and forward. The dome is splitting in half and the contents are pouring out.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Object Creation Date: 2nd half of the 20th century
Accession Number: 2014/1.600
Medium and Support: welded steel
Artist: Gibbs, Tom
Primary Keywords: abstract; outdoor sculpture; sculpture by form

Untitled; Michael Goldberg

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Michael Goldberg
Physical Description: Abstract expressionist painting in pink, black, green and ivory, with squares pressed into the paint while wet to make an impression.
Artist Life Dates: (1924 - 2007)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1986
Accession Number: 2008/2.230
Medium and Support: charcoal and oil on paper board
Artist: Goldberg, Michael
Primary Keywords: abstract expressionist; action painting; gestural painting; jazz modern; oil painting; painting techniques by medium

Landscape; Adolph Gottlieb

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Title: Landscape
Artist: Adolph Gottlieb
Physical Description: A landscape reduced to minimal abstract elements. The lower half of the painting is black. The upper half, various shades of white and blue. Two black squares are suspended in the white above the black. A small pale blue circle is between the squares.
Artist Life Dates: 1903 - 1974)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1952
Accession Number: 1968/1.81
Medium and Support: oil on board
Artist: Gottlieb, Adolph
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; color-field; landscapes; landscapes (representations); minimal; natural landscapes; oil painting; oil paintings; sky; spirituality; sun

The Sculptor; Peter Grippe

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Title: The Sculptor
Artist: Peter Grippe
Physical Description: On the left the sculptor is shown working on a model of the woman on the right. There is an angel at the feet of the woman/muse.
Artist Life Dates: 1912-2002
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1957
Accession Number: 2013/2.531
Medium and Support: etching and drypoint on paper
Artist: Grippe, Peter
Primary Keywords: abstract imagist; angels; classical revival; pedestals; sculptors; sculpture; women

Landscape of Quito; Oswaldo Guayasamin

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Title: Landscape of Quito
Artist: Oswaldo Guayasamin
Physical Description: This horizontal format painting is done in shades of light and dark gray, cream and yellow. With abstracted forms it depicts jagged mountains sihouetted against a cloudy sky. In front of these mountains there are rolling hills and geometric forms that suggest a cityscape. In the foreground there are more mountain peaks.
Artist Life Dates: 1919-1999
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1963
Accession Number: 2009/2.93
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist: Guayasamin, Oswaldo
Primary Keywords: abstract expressionist; landscapes (environments); mountains; townscapes (built environment)

Ups and Downs; Tyree Guyton

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Title: Ups and Downs
Artist: Tyree Guyton
Physical Description: Two abstracted bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles against a tan background filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The “whites” of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. From the eyes of the male figure, purple paint drips down his checks; in the female figure, the paint drips upwards.
Artist Life Dates: born 8/24/1955
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1994
Accession Number: 2002/1.202
Medium and Support: acrylic on masonite
Artist: Guyton, Tyree
Primary Keywords: abstract; african american; figures; figures (representations); folk art; men; outsider art; women

Passage 1; Keiichi Hayano

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Title: Passage 1
Artist: Keiichi Hayano
Physical Description: Black abstract print on tan paper with relief border around all sides. Horizontal relief in abstract shape on lower half of paper.
Artist Life Dates: (active Ogaki, Japan, 1930 - 2011)
Object Creation Date: circa 1980
Accession Number: 2012/2.106
Medium and Support: aquatint, soft-ground, relief print on paper
Artist: Hayano, Keiichi
Primary Keywords: abstract; japanese; relief prints

Ring; Carol Hepper

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Title: Ring
Artist: Carol Hepper
Physical Description: An abstract sculpture made out of wood. Composed of three parts with a wooden ring encircling the other two additions.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1953
Object Creation Date: 1988
Accession Number: 2011/1.85
Medium and Support: wood
Artist: Hepper, Carol
Primary Keywords: abstract; branches (components); sculpture; wood (plant material)

Sphere with Colour (Grey and White); Barbara Hepworth

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Title: Sphere with Colour (Grey and White)
Artist: Barbara Hepworth
Physical Description: Oval-shaped piece of veined, green Swedish marble standing on one of its narrow ends. Three holes of different sizes penetrate into the object's center. The holes are painted respectively in a semi-gloss black and matte white.
Artist Life Dates: 1903 - 1975
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1965
Accession Number: 1967/1.43
Medium and Support: Swedish green marble and paint on wood base
Artist: Hepworth, Barbara
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; biomorphic abstraction; carvings; circles; geometric abstraction; round (shape); sculpture; stone

Monsoon; Howard Hodgkin; Published by Waddington Graphics, London

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Title: Monsoon
Artist: Howard Hodgkin
Artist Life Dates: b. 1932
Object Creation Date: 1986
Accession Number: 2014/2.22
Medium and Support: hand-colored lithograph on paper
Artist: Hodgkin, Howard
Primary Keywords: abstract; contrast

Untitled; Hans Hofmann

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Hans Hofmann
Physical Description: Abstract painting dominated by brushstrokes in vivid yellows on white background with light blues in center and left side of canvas, large area of light brown in upper right and lower left, and brushstrokes in dark red in left center of canvas. Signed “hans hofmann” in lower right.
Artist Life Dates: 1880 - 1966
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1962
Accession Number: 1997/1.125
Medium and Support: oil on canvas board
Artist: Hofmann, Hans
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction

Untitled, from Suspended Sphere Series; Todd Hoyer

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Title: Untitled, from Suspended Sphere Series
Artist: Todd Hoyer
Physical Description: A sphere, wrapped in rusted wire, is sandwiched between two hefty, rough hewn, chunks of wood.; freestanding multimedia wood sculpture, with rectangular wood base and top sandwiching a small wire-covered sphere at center
Artist Life Dates: b. 1952
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2002/2.146
Medium and Support: eucalyptus, wire
Artist: Hoyer, Todd
Primary Keywords: abstract; carvings; sculpture; spheres (geometric figures); wood (plant material); wood (sculpture by material); woodworking

Untitled; Artist Unknown, Japan

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description: A standing closed vessel with four pointed feet and is box-like in shape. The sides are intrically designed in a herringbone pattern of light blue and yellow matte finish. There is a glazed band in the center of the vessel of purple and pink tones that is also on the top and feet. The top overlaps itself with matte finished areas and glazed finished areas.
Accession Number: 2012/1.258
Medium and Support: glazed ceramic
Artist: Japan, Artist Unknown
Primary Keywords: abstract; ceramics

Country Portrait -- Green; Lester Johnson

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Title: Country Portrait -- Green
Artist: Lester Johnson
Physical Description: Bust-length portrait of figure in black on green background using thickly applied paint.
Artist Life Dates: 1919 - 2010
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1963
Accession Number: 1978/2.141
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist: Johnson, Lester
Primary Keywords: abstract; african american; bust-length; figure (representation); figures; portraits

Do yu Get it; Martin Johnson

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Title: Do yu Get it
Artist: Martin Johnson
Physical Description: 7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire “track” at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a “spider web” attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.
Artist Life Dates: (1951 - )
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1996
Accession Number: 2008/2.235
Medium and Support: mixed media consruction, paint, wood, wire, toy car
Artist: Johnson, Martin
Primary Keywords: abstract imagist; assemblage (sculpture technique); childhood; clowns; collage; eyes; found objects; mouths; pop; racetracks; racing cars; spiders; textile components; threading; toys (recreational artifacts); wirework

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