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Title
Reclining Nude
Artist
Georges Braque
Physical Description
Abstract recining female nude clearly influenced by the breaking down of form found in Braque's cubist work. Black ink is crosshatched to give depth and texture to the body and fabrics.
Artist Life Dates
1882-1963
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1882-1948
Accession Number
1948/1.51
Medium and Support
etching on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
cubist
modernism
nudes
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Title
Small Worlds, III (Kleine Welten, III)
Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Physical Description
Positioned within a black background a vertically stationed white oval shape sits at center; within the oval are a series of abstracted forms and lines in primary colors all characteristic of Kandinsky's style.
Artist Life Dates
1866 - 1944
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1922
Accession Number
1948/1.62
Medium and Support
color lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
biomorphic abstraction
color lithographs
expressionism
expressionist
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Title
Happiness
Artist
Jacques Lipchitz
Artist Life Dates
1891-1973
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1947
Accession Number
1948/1.98
Medium and Support
bronze
Primary Keywords
abstract
emotion
figural studies
groups
standing
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Title
Seated Nude
Artist
Henri Laurens
Artist Life Dates
1885-1954
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1940
Accession Number
1948/2.27
Medium and Support
terracotta
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
figural studies
nudes
seated
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Title
Fox
Artist
Georges Braque
Physical Description
This early Cubist print has numerous abstract lines reminiscent of letters and objects. The word "fox" appears to the right, with various textures accompanying it.
Artist Life Dates
1882-1963
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1911; edition 1912
Accession Number
1949/1.169
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on Arches paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
cubist
modernist
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
bottle
cubist
cups
flasks (bottles)
oil painting
oil paintings
still lifes
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Title
Figure
Artist
Henry Moore
Physical Description
A small carved wood sculpture depicting a seated figure with legs crossed.
Artist Life Dates
(Castleford, England, 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986, Hertforshire, England)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1932
Accession Number
1953/1.27
Medium and Support
lignum vitae with wood base
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
carvings
figures
sitting
wood (plant material)
wood (sculpture by material)
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Title
Opposite
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1933
Accession Number
1953/2.2
Medium and Support
woodblock print on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
nonrepresentational art
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Title
Figure and Still Life
Artist
Jankel Adler
Physical Description
An abstract figure with anthropomorphic qualities stands to the left, with a wing-like object sweeping across the middle of the painting and into the right side, which holds a still life component. The color scheme is predominently cool with warm accents throughout both the figure and the still life.
Artist Life Dates
1895 - 1949
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1948
Accession Number
1954/2.37
Medium and Support
oil on board
Primary Keywords
abstract
cubist
still lifes
Title
Rectangular Bronze Form No. 2
Artist
Robert Adams
Physical Description
Thin, double-side, H-shaped bronze sculpture. Each side is made up of a collection of rough rectangle shapes overlapping and butting up against one another. Two rectangle-shaped openings penetrate the piece.
Artist Life Dates
1917-1984
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1953
Accession Number
1954/2.40
Medium and Support
bronze with wood base
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
bronze (metal)
geometric abstraction
metalworking
rectangles
sculpture
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Title
20 décembre 1952
Artist
Pierre Soulages
Physical Description
Abstract painting in muted colors with shades of blacks, browns, and white. The composition consists of bold diagonal lines and blocks of black, brown, and white.
Artist Life Dates
born 1919
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1952
Accession Number
1954/2.61
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
nonrepresentational art
Title
(El Sereno) The Watchman
Artist
Afro (Afro Basaldella)
Artist Life Dates
(Udine, Italy, 1912 - 1976, Zurich, Switzerland)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1912-1956
Accession Number
1956/1.85
Medium and Support
color lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
color lithographs
figures
figures (representations)
lithographs
walking
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Title
White Front
Artist
Josef Albers
Physical Description
A white rectangle stretches from near the left edge to the right edge. It has two small verticle ochre rectangles close to either end. Around the white rectangle are sections of yellow and ochre.
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1958
Accession Number
1958/2.72
Medium and Support
oil on masonite
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
color-field
geometric abstraction
minimal
op art
rectangles
rubenism
squares
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstract expressionist
abstraction
ceramics
sculpture
vessels
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Title
Umgeben
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1933
Accession Number
1961/2.43
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
nonrepresentational art
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Title
Fallen Head
Artist
Karel Appel
Artist Life Dates
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1921 - 2006, Zurich, Switzerland
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1960
Accession Number
1963/1.74
Medium and Support
gouache and crayon on white wove paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
head
Title
Ceramic Sculpture
Artist
Yagi Kazuo
Physical Description
It is a long, rectangular unglazed ceramic piece, intended to be shown in horizontal position. Two thick slabs are connected with bridges inside. The front part has almost flat surface; there is a deep cut on the left side, in which mass of worm-like inner surface can be seen. The same surface is revealed in the middle, as well as on the right edge. The top of the slab has a several shallow holes and one deep cut, inside of which has worm-like surface, as explained above. There is also a dent on the top and on the right, from which worm-like mass seems to be coming out. Reddish shadows cast on left side, in the middle, and the right. There is a patch of clay on left side near the left cut. The bottom is flat.
Artist Life Dates
1918 - 1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1958
Accession Number
1963/2.73
Medium and Support
stoneware
Primary Keywords
abstract image
ceramics
sculpture by form
Title
Untitled
Artist
Garo Zareh Antreasian
Artist Life Dates
born 1922
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1962
Accession Number
1964/1.116
Medium and Support
embossed color lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
lithographs
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
biomorphic abstraction
carvings
circles
geometric abstraction
round (shape)
sculpture
stone
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Title
Dancer (Danseuse)
Artist
Gino Severini
Physical Description
An explosion of colorful forms suggests the human form in dynamic movement. Yellows and reds predominate in shapes that draw the eye toward the viewer's upper right where three roughy triangular yellow shapes suggest a head and upraised arms.
Artist Life Dates
1883 - 1966
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1955
Accession Number
1967/2.43
Medium and Support
color lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
color lithographs
cubist
dancers
futurist
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Title
Teapot, on gray background (Théière sur fond gris)
Artist
Georges Braque
Physical Description
Lithograph print on white paper. In the center, a very bulbous teapot, with a large conical mouth and protruding spout, is depicted in crude outline and filled in with patchy dark brown. To the right is a banana and the outline of an apple. A gray background fills the space around the objects and trails off into the white paper at the edges.
Artist Life Dates
1882-1963
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1947
Accession Number
1968/1.77
Medium and Support
color lithograph on Arches paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstract impressionist
color lithographs
cubist
fruit
still lifes
teapots
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Title
Gray Teapot (Théière grise)
Artist
Georges Braque
Physical Description
A squat teapot with an upturned spout, executed in gray and white that suggests silverware, sits left of center on a darker gray tray. To the right of the teapot is a lemon in bright yellow. The objects are surounded by black, and there is a dark gray frame of color around the entire print.
Artist Life Dates
1882-1963
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1947
Accession Number
1968/1.78
Medium and Support
color lithograph on Arches paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstract impressionist
color lithographs
cubist
fruit
still lifes
teapots
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
color-field
landscapes
landscapes (representations)
minimal
natural landscapes
oil painting
oil paintings
sky
spirituality
sun
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
bronzes
figures (representations)
reclining
stringed instruments
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Title
One of a Pair of Casement Windows from the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY
Artist
Frank Lloyd Wright
Physical Description
One of a pair of windows with a highly regular, rectilinear, although asymetric, design in both clear and colored glass. Window has an oak frame. Window design consists of vertical and horizontal bands of green and amber colorerd glass at top and bottom of window; along one side are colored squares of glass; along the other is a chevron-shaped column of glass. The overall effect is of colored pieces of glass suspended within a clear window subdivided by abstract bands and patterns of lead caming.
Artist Life Dates
1867-1959
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1904
Accession Number
1968/2.53
Medium and Support
glass, oak and lead
Primary Keywords
abstract
windows
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Title
Untitled, from 'Spectral Cadmiums'
Artist
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Artist Life Dates
born 1930
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1968
Accession Number
1969/1.120
Medium and Support
serigraph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric
squares
squares (geometric figures)
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Title
Untitled, from 'Spectral Cadmiums'
Artist
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Artist Life Dates
born 1930
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1968
Accession Number
1969/2.1
Medium and Support
serigraph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric
screen prints
squares
squares (geometric figures)
Title
Untitled, from 'Fragments' suite
Artist
Garo Zareh Antreasian
Artist Life Dates
born 1922
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1961
Accession Number
1970/2.131
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
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Title
A Genesis
Artist
Gabor Peterdi
Physical Description
Along the bottom of the composition are two horizontal bands with white borders. Within these bands are organic shapes bordered in dark lines. At the top half of the composition is square with white borders that showcases a heavily lined scene reminiscent of waves in the ocean. The background of the piece is highly texturized.
Artist Life Dates
Hungary, 1915-2001
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1967
Accession Number
1970/2.167
Medium and Support
color etching on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
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Title
Tommy's Pond
Artist
Gabor Peterdi
Physical Description
This print is constructed of five horizontal bands of color with a semicircular shape at the top center. The bottom-most band depicts tightly clustered organic shapes with dark borders. The next band has a short, thick, curving line in the center, and a couple other dark organic lines above it. The third and middle band has some hatching and some circular shapes. The fourth band, or the second band from the top, is made up of horizontal lines, with many hatched vertical lines over top of them, reminiscent of grass. The top most band depicts a cellular-like structure, consisting of a diamond pattern. The semicircular shape at the top cuts through the top band, and juts partially into the band underneath it. The semicircle has an organic, circular line formation in the center.
Artist Life Dates
Hungary, 1915 - 2001
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1967
Accession Number
1970/2.172
Medium and Support
color etching on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
ponds
Title
Composition: from 'Octet Suite'
Artist
Garo Zareh Antreasian
Artist Life Dates
born 1922
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1969
Accession Number
1971/1.192
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
lithographs
Title
Composition: from 'Quantum Suite'
Artist
Garo Zareh Antreasian
Artist Life Dates
born 1922
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1966
Accession Number
1971/1.193
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
lithographs
Title
The Concierge
Artist
Medardo Rosso
Artist Life Dates
1858-1928
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1883-1918
Accession Number
1973/1.809
Medium and Support
wax over plaster on wood base
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
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Title
White Territory
Artist
Joan Mitchell
Physical Description
Abstract painting, primarily white with a large squarish area of dark green in the top left quadrant. Loose brushwork varies from wide, full strokes to the short, rapid strokes at the compositions center. Pigment application ranges from a very thin wash to heavy impasto.
Artist Life Dates
(Chicago, Illinois , 2/12/1925 - 10/30/1992, Paris, France)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1970-1971
Accession Number
1974/2.21
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstract expressionist
abstraction
landscapes (environments)
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Title
Ocean Park No. 52
Artist
Richard Diebenkorn
Physical Description
A canvas saturated in layered shades of muted browns, oranges, ochres, and yellows is crossed by lines, some dark some light, some on the surface, some buried beneath the surface color. A bold horizontal line cuts across about a quarter of the way from the bottom. On the right are several faint verticals. At the top two horizontal lines underlap and overlap with two diagonals.
Artist Life Dates
1922 - 1993
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1972
Accession Number
1974/2.22
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
color-field
lyrical abstraction
natural landscapes
oil painting
santa monica (inhabited place)
sunlight
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Title
Hammock Reader
Artist
Milton Avery
Physical Description
Painting depicting a featureless female figure, in tones of aqua and light blue extending across the center of the canvas in a light gray hammock. There is a bright white shape, perhaps a book, in the middle of the figure. Behind the figure, the rest of the composition is organized in horizontal sections. At top, a yellow sky; below that are two gently-curved mountains in dark brown, followed by two horizontal planes of color in tan and light brown.
Artist Life Dates
1885 - 1965
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1951
Accession Number
1974/2.37
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Primary Keywords
abstract
book
books
figures (representations)
hammock
hammocks
mountains
reading
reclining
shape
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Title
Spitball
Artist
Tony Smith
Physical Description
A black granite abstract sculpute. Two "legs" rise up toward one another to meet at a point, making a basic triangle shape. At the bottom of the "legs," two horizontal "feet" protrude away from the object's center and end in four-sided points.
Artist Life Dates
1912 - 1980
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
designed 1961; created 1970
Accession Number
1974/2.51
Medium and Support
granite
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric abstraction
minimal
sculpture
stone
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Title
Hydra Study
Artist
Brice Marden
Physical Description
At the outer edge a long black rectangle composed of graphite and wax extends upward. Within this border is a white rectangular stripe, following the same arc as the outer black rectangle, which is exposed Arches heavy white paper. An inner black stripe sits at the composition's center composed of the same wax and graphite.
Artist Life Dates
born, Bronxville, New York, 1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1975
Accession Number
1976/1.231
Medium and Support
graphite and wax on Arches heavy white paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric abstraction
geometric patterns
minimal
monsters
op art
rectangles
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
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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
Primary Keywords
abstract
african american
bust-length
figure (representation)
figures
portraits
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Title
Sunday of the Bookkeeper
Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
Artist Life Dates
born 1927
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927-1978
Accession Number
1978/2.64
Medium and Support
etching on ledger paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
etching (printing process)
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Title
Sunday of the Bookkeeper
Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
Artist Life Dates
born 1927
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927-1978
Accession Number
1978/2.65
Medium and Support
etching on ledger paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
etchings
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Title
Sunday of the Bookkeeper
Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
Artist Life Dates
born 1927
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927-1978
Accession Number
1978/2.66
Medium and Support
etching on ledger paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
etchings
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Title
Sunday of the Bookkeeper
Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
Artist Life Dates
born 1927
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927-1978
Accession Number
1978/2.67
Medium and Support
etching on ledger paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
etchings
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Title
Reclining Bird
Artist
Henry Moore
Artist Life Dates
(Castleford, England, 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986, Hertforshire, England)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927; cast 1949
Accession Number
1981/2.85
Medium and Support
bronze with marble base
Primary Keywords
abstract
birds
reclining
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Jean Paul Slusser
Physical Description
A collage composed of different colored pieces of sandpaper of different grades or textures, construction paper, printed papers, and a piece of embossed leather. Most of the sandpaper pieces are in an overlapping group in the center of the piece. In the viewer's upper right there is a purple piece of paper printed with a throng of human figures.
Artist Life Dates
1886 -1981
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1982/2.35
Medium and Support
sandpaper, construction paper, printed papers, and leather mounted on board
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
collage
paper (fiber product)
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Title
WEG VII (White Embossing on Gray)
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1971
Accession Number
1983/1.313
Medium and Support
color line-cut on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric abstraction
geometric shapes
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Title
Articulation: Formulation, from the portfolio "Formulation: Articulation"
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1972
Accession Number
1983/1.336.1
Medium and Support
screenprint on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
geometric
geometric abstraction
geometric shapes
squares
squares (geometric figures)
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Title
Articulation: Formulation, from the portfolio "Formulation: Articulation"
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1972
Accession Number
1983/1.336.10
Medium and Support
screenprint on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
abstraction
geometric
geometric abstraction
geometric shapes
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Title
Articulation: Formulation, from the portfolio "Formulation: Articulation"
Artist
Josef Albers
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1972
Accession Number
1983/1.336.11
Medium and Support
screenprint on paper
Primary Keywords
abstract
geometric
geometric abstraction
geometric shapes
screen printing
screen prints
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