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Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918 …
WEBSuprematist Composition: White on White. 1918. Oil on canvas. 31 1/4 x 31 1/4" (79.4 x 79.4 cm). 1935 Acquisition confirmed in 1999 by agreement with the Estate of Kazimir Malevich and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange). 817.1935. Painting and Sculpture.
Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation No. 1. 1962 | MoMA
WEBAug 22, 2015 · To make Accumulation No. 1, her first sculpture, Kusama covered an armchair with scores of hand-sewn stuffed and painted protrusions, which she referred to as phalluses. “I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this obliteration.”. When she first exhibited this work in New York, …
Robert Rauschenberg. Canyon. 1959 | MoMA
WEBRobert Rauschenberg Canyon 1959. On view. MoMA, Floor 4, 408 The David Geffen Wing. Rauschenberg collected objects from New York City streets. He would take “whatever the day would lay out.”. For this work, he combined painting, collage, and a stuffed eagle that his friend, the artist Sari Dienes, found in the trash.
Francis Bacon. Study for Portrait VII. 1953 | MoMA
WEBFrancis Bacon. Study for Portrait VII. 1953. Bacon was a key figure in the School of London, a group of artists pursuing figurative painting in the decades following World War II. Throughout his career, Bacon endeavored, he said, “to make the best painting of the human cry.”. Study for Portrait VII began as a portrait of David Sylvester, an ...
Clara Porset. Butaque. c. 1957 | MoMA
WEBClara Porset Butaque c. 1957. On view. MoMA, Floor 3, 3 North The Philip Johnson Galleries. The term butaque refers to a low, curved chair with a wooden frame and seat traditionally made of animal skin; different versions can be found throughout Latin America. It first emerged in Venezuela in the sixteenth century and borrows elements from pre ...
Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral. 1958 | MoMA
WEBLouise Nevelson Sky Cathedral 1958. Louise Nevelson called herself “the original recycler.”. To make this sculpture, she filled open boxes with wooden pieces she found on the street. Things like chair backs, furniture legs, and scraps from old buildings. She painted everything black and stacked the boxes on top of one another.
Archibald John Motley Jr.. Tongues (Holy Rollers). 1929 | MoMA
WEBMotley, who had his first solo show in New York, in 1928, was primarily known for his exuberant scenes chronicling Bronzeville, a segregated Black neighborhood in his hometown of Chicago. In Tongues (Holy Rollers), purplish-brown curtains open to reveal a dramatically lit nighttime gathering at a Pentecostal church.
Sam Gilliam. 10/27/69. 1969 | MoMA
WEBSam Gilliam 10/27/69 1969. In 1968—the year of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the signing of the Civil Rights Act—Gilliam began staining and folding raw canvases and suspending them from the wall, creating immersive bleeds of color. For Gilliam, “the year 1968 was one of revelation . . . something was in the air, and it ...