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Title

Chess Set (Legs to Base of Chess 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

2004/2.86FF&GG

Medium and Support

acrylic sculpture

relevance

rank 17.86431

Primary Keywords

chessboards

chessmen

geometric abstraction

molding

op art

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 17.49197

Primary Keywords

checker pattern

chessboards

chessmen

geometric abstraction

molding

op art

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 17.49197

Primary Keywords

checker pattern

chessboards

chessmen

geometric abstraction

molding

op art

Title

Mercurius in the Vessel

Artist

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Physical Description

Concentric lines of bright red alternate with lines of blue and green to create an optical illusion of receeding squares. The juxtaposition of these colors also creates an appearance of intersecting orange lines and hues of purple.

Artist Life Dates

born 1930

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1963

Accession Number

1988/1.137

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 16.26677

Primary Keywords

abstraction

geometric abstraction

occultism

oil paintings

op art

spirituality

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 16.18940

Primary Keywords

drawings

geometric abstraction

geometric shapes

gouaches

hard-edge

op art

triangles

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

relevance

rank 16.11911

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstraction

color-field

geometric abstraction

minimal

op art

rectangles

rubenism

squares

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

relevance

rank 15.15726

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstraction

geometric abstraction

geometric patterns

minimal

monsters

op art

rectangles

Title

Untitled

Artist

Frank Stella

Physical Description

Two sets of concentric arcs of bright colors radiate toward one another from the lower left corner and the upper right corner.

Artist Life Dates

born 1936

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1968

Accession Number

1993/2.6

Medium and Support

acrylic on canvas

relevance

rank 15.15726

Primary Keywords

abstraction

color-field

curved

geometric abstraction

geometric patterns

minimal

op art

Title

Untitled Cube

Artist

Alvin D. Loving

Physical Description

A framework three-dimensional cube sits at an angle so that one of its corners appears to protrude from the center of the piece. The cube is gray, with dark gray shading on the shadowed edges, and dark and light yellow shading on the lit edges. The canvas is cut to the dimensions of the cube.

Artist Life Dates

1935-2005

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1969

Accession Number

1969/2.25

Medium and Support

acrylic on canvas

relevance

rank 14.75810

Primary Keywords

abstraction

acrylic paintings

cubes (geometric figures)

geometric abstraction

geometric shapes

inverted perspective

minimal

op art