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White Line Square XII (Series II); Josef Albers

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Title: White Line Square XII (Series II)
Artist: Josef Albers
Physical Description: Squares in progressing sizes and shades of orange
Artist Life Dates: American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Object Creation Date: 1966
Accession Number: 2011/1.119
Medium and Support: three color alumninum plate lithographs on hand cut Arches cover paper
Date Added/Updated: 2015-02-20 15:35:48
Primary Keywords: abstract; geometric abstraction; squares, art

Abstract Circles; Fukui Ryonosuke

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Title: Abstract Circles
Artist: Fukui Ryonosuke
Physical Description: This print consists of nuetral, muted colors and abstract designs primarily of dots and circles. The print is designed to look as if thin cracks run through the image, and a lady bug is almost imperceptible near the bottom left of the image. The bottom edge of the print has a dark strip running across it.
Artist Life Dates: 1924-1986
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: mid 20th century
Accession Number: 2010/2.33
Medium and Support: color print on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2015-02-20 15:35:04
Primary Keywords: abstraction, geometric; circles (plane figures); insects; prints

Tsitrusvaan; Iaroslav Serpan

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Title: Tsitrusvaan
Artist: Iaroslav Serpan
Artist Life Dates: 1922-1976
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1956
Accession Number: 1959/2.104
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated: 2015-02-20 15:30:25
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Marriage of Reason and Squalor; Frank Stella

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Title: Marriage of Reason and Squalor
Artist: Frank Stella
Physical Description: This print shows a black horizontal rectangle in the lower left portion of an off-white background. The rectangle is divided in half and each side has a pattern of stripes that create the appearance of inverted u-shaped forms stacked one on top of the other.
Artist Life Dates: born 1936
Object Creation Date: 1967
Accession Number: 2010/2.25
Medium and Support: lithograph on Paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-11-11 15:19:07
Primary Keywords: geometric abstraction; geometric patterns; lithographs

I-S Va 4 (Six Variants); Josef Albers

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Title: I-S Va 4 (Six Variants)
Artist: Josef Albers
Physical Description: Geometric abstract rectangular arches in shades of red and orange
Artist Life Dates: American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Object Creation Date: 1969
Accession Number: 2011/1.116
Medium and Support: screenprint on Arches
Date Added/Updated: 2014-11-11 15:14:15
Primary Keywords: abstract; arches; geometric abstraction

I-S Va 5 (Six Variants); Josef Albers

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Title: I-S Va 5 (Six Variants)
Artist: Josef Albers
Physical Description: An abstract print of six rectangular shapes in neutral shades
Artist Life Dates: American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Object Creation Date: 1969
Accession Number: 2011/1.118
Medium and Support: screenprint on Arches
Date Added/Updated: 2014-11-11 15:10:31
Primary Keywords: abstract; geometric abstraction; rectangles

People; Carlos Lopez

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Title: People
Artist: Carlos Lopez
Artist Life Dates: 1908-1953
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1946
Accession Number: 1980/2.235
Medium and Support: drypoint on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 13:04:38
Primary Keywords: abstraction; figures; historical figures; surrealism

Green Shoes; Larry Rivers

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Title: Green Shoes
Artist: Larry Rivers
Artist Life Dates: 1923 - 2002
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1966
Accession Number: 2000/2.203
Medium and Support: collage on wove paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 13:04:14
Primary Keywords: abstraction; chairs; figures; seated; shoes

Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front); Roni Horn

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Title: Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front)
Artist: Roni Horn
Physical Description: Aluminum shaft with block letters cast in black plastic.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1955
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1994
Accession Number: 2009/1.470
Medium and Support: cast plastic and aluminum
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 13:02:11
Primary Keywords: abstraction; memory; poetry; text

Circle III; Bill Barrett

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Title: Circle III
Artist: Bill Barrett
Physical Description: Abstract steel sculpture with circluar elements.
Artist Life Dates: born 1934
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 1967
Accession Number: 1972/2.7
Medium and Support: welded steel
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 13:00:32
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Large Red; Jack Tworkov

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Title: Large Red
Artist: Jack Tworkov
Artist Life Dates: Poland, 1900-1982
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1962
Accession Number: 1972/2.29
Medium and Support: Liquitex and graphite on wove paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 12:59:06
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Untitled; Jack Tworkov

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Jack Tworkov
Artist Life Dates: 1900 - 1982
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1962
Accession Number: 1983/1.307
Medium and Support: graphite, oil and crayon on wove paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 12:58:27
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Small Red; Jack Tworkov

Title: Small Red
Artist: Jack Tworkov
Physical Description: This is an abstract drawing with a large field of red and some green areas against a cream colored background. There are two groupings of vertical red lines partially covered by thick red strokes that create two round forms. Around the red area are black pencil strokes.
Artist Life Dates: 1900 - 1982
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1962
Accession Number: 2000/2.264
Medium and Support: Liquitex and graphite on wove paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-08-15 12:54:44
Primary Keywords: abstraction; fruit; still lifes

Rocks; David Hockney

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Title: Rocks
Artist: David Hockney
Artist Life Dates: born 1937
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1968
Accession Number: 1983/1.238
Medium and Support: four color lithograph on zinc
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:33:23
Primary Keywords: abstraction; rocks

Desert Butterfly; Charles Hinman

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Title: Desert Butterfly
Artist: Charles Hinman
Artist Life Dates: b. 1932
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1968
Accession Number: 1997/2.2A
Medium and Support: acrylic on shaped canvas
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:29:58
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Sun Pattern, Woebley, from "English Churches"; Howard Bond

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Title: Sun Pattern, Woebley, from "English Churches"
Artist: Howard Bond
Artist Life Dates: Born 1931
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1982
Accession Number: 1982/2.73
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:29:55
Primary Keywords: abstraction; churches; window

Untitled; Philip Guston

Title: Untitled
Artist: Philip Guston
Artist Life Dates: 1913 - 1980
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1964
Accession Number: 2000/2.234
Medium and Support: pen and ink on wove paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:25:01
Primary Keywords: abstraction; ink; still lifes

Untitled; Philip Guston

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Philip Guston
Artist Life Dates: 1913-1980
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1967
Accession Number: 1983/1.303
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:22:53
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Untitled; Jules Olitski

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Jules Olitski
Artist Life Dates: Russia, 1922-2007
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1967
Accession Number: 1983/1.324
Medium and Support: color lithograph on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:16:56
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Ternary Marker; Beverly Pepper

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Title: Ternary Marker
Artist: Beverly Pepper
Physical Description: abstracted figural bronze
Artist Life Dates: born 1922
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1988
Accession Number: 2003/2.78
Medium and Support: cast bronze
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:13:08
Primary Keywords: abstraction; sculpture in the round

Fingers and Faces; Marisol

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Title: Fingers and Faces
Artist: Marisol
Artist Life Dates: Venezuela, b. 1930
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1961
Accession Number: 1983/1.331
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:12:30
Primary Keywords: abstraction

White Front; Josef Albers

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:08:06
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; color-field; geometric abstraction; minimal; op art; rectangles; rubenism; squares

Stiff Box 12; Lucas Samaras

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Title: Stiff Box 12
Artist: Lucas Samaras
Physical Description: Made of thick steel, this sculpture has two very distinct halves. One on side, the thick sheet of steel gracefully curves around and back on itself, making loops and rounded edges. On the reverse, the steel is angular, jagged, and sharp, jutting into the spaces in the sculpture's interior and the space around the whole. At the very center of the piece, along the implied dividing line between the two sides, is a relatively small box.
Artist Life Dates: American, born Greece, 1936
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1971
Accession Number: 1997/1.138
Medium and Support: Cor-Ten steel
Date Added/Updated: 2014-02-14 00:00:16
Primary Keywords: abstraction; angular; boxes (containers); curved; direct metal sculpture; geometric abstraction; steelwork; whiplash curves

Untitled [from Poésies de mots inconnus]; Henri Matisse

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Title: Untitled [from Poésies de mots inconnus]
Artist: Henri Matisse
Artist Life Dates: 1869-1954
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1949
Accession Number: 1997/1.94
Medium and Support: linocut in blue on dark cream paper
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:41:14
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Untitled [from Poésies de mots inconnus]; Henri Matisse

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Title: Untitled [from Poésies de mots inconnus]
Artist: Henri Matisse
Artist Life Dates: 1869-1954
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1949
Accession Number: 1997/1.93
Medium and Support: linocut in red on dark cream paper
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:41:14
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Fire Engine Red; Dorothea Rockburne

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:41:07
Primary Keywords: abstraction; acrylic painting (technique); acrylic paintings; color-field; fire engines; minimal

Untitled; Robert Morris

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Robert Morris
Physical Description: three aluminum-painted canvas panels joined in the back to form a square, with five inlays of Sculptmetal, zinc photographic plates and lead
Artist Life Dates: Born 1931
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1965
Accession Number: 1997/1.130
Medium and Support: sculptmetal, plaster, oil, zinc photographic plate, lead plate and burlap on canvas
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:41:06
Primary Keywords: abstraction; conceptual; hand; minimal; pointing hands; squares

Young Woman with Mandolin; Pablo Picasso

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Title: Young Woman with Mandolin
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Physical Description: This painting depicts the abstract form of a woman sitting in a chair with her head, shown in profile and tilted upward. There is a stringed instrument in her lap and her hands rest on the arms of the chair. It is painted in muted colors of aqua and lavender with brighter areas of yellow, orange and blue. The figure, chair and instrument are created with just a few black lines to suggest their forms.
Artist Life Dates: 1881-1973
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1932
Accession Number: 1994/1.69
Medium and Support: oil on board
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:41:05
Primary Keywords: abstraction; mandolins; music; portraits; surrealism; woman

Self; Allen Jones

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Title: Self
Artist: Allen Jones
Artist Life Dates: born 1937
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1965
Accession Number: 1991/2.41
Medium and Support: color screenprint on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:40:58
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Canyon Chorus; Gary Mayer

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Title: Canyon Chorus
Artist: Gary Mayer
Physical Description: Abstract canyon scene with clouds and blue sky.
Artist Life Dates: 20th century
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 1983
Accession Number: 1989/1.44
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:40:53
Primary Keywords: abstraction

Untitled; e e cummings

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Title: Untitled
Artist: e e cummings
Physical Description: Abstract painting with low horizon line, deep blue above horizon and dark greenish-brown below horizon; brown abstract form left of center, and bright white swirling brushstroke right of center.
Artist Life Dates: 1894-1962
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1950
Accession Number: 1988/1.120
Medium and Support: oil on cardboard
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:40:49
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; landscapes (environments); moon; night; trees

At the Crossroads (En Rade); Max Ernst

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:40:23
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; birds; oil painting; sky; sunlight; surrealism; surrealist

Untitled; Bill Barrett

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Bill Barrett
Artist Life Dates: born 1934
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 1965
Accession Number: 1975/2.4
Medium and Support: welded and painted steel
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:39:45
Primary Keywords: abstraction; geometric shapes

Sunset Corner; Helen Frankenthaler

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Title: Sunset Corner
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Physical Description: A vast surface of orange yields in the very bottom of the painting to a swath of yellow, under which there is a line of white and green, and under that a thin black line.
Artist Life Dates: 1928-2011
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1969
Accession Number: 1973/1.813
Medium and Support: acrylic on canvas
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:39:38
Primary Keywords: abstraction; acrylic painting (technique); color-field; lyrical abstraction; sky; sunlight; sunset

Dancer (Danseuse); Gino Severini

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:39:05
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; color lithographs; cubist; dancers; futurist

20 décembre 1952; Pierre Soulages

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:38:23
Primary Keywords: abstract; abstraction; nonrepresentational art

Invariables; Zoltan Sepeshy

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Title: Invariables
Artist: Zoltan Sepeshy
Physical Description: A man in the center with geometric shapes around, other figures with different facial expressions.
Artist Life Dates: 1898-1974
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 1947
Accession Number: 1950/1.206
Medium and Support: tempera on board
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:37:57
Primary Keywords: abstraction; figures

Harlem Dancers; Elizabeth Olds

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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
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:37:27
Primary Keywords: abstraction; dancers; entertainment; groups; interiors; males; standing; wpa