Abstraction, porch shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
Artist
Paul Strand
(American, 1890 - 1976)
Date1916
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 6 5/8 inches (24.29 × 16.83 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (29.85 × 20.64 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (29.85 × 20.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2222
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionShadow of the diagonal slats from a fence on the edge of a round table.Exhibition HistoryRotation 10. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. March 19 – September 11, 2011, no cat.
World War I and the Rise of Modernism. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. January 9 – October 18, 2015, no cat.
In this image, shadow patterns on a porch become a dynamic arrangement of line and tone, positive and negative space. Inspired by the spatial compression and abstraction of Cubist paintings of the time, Paul Strand created a body of work that focused on the formal qualities—lights, shadow, line, and space—of everyday places and objects.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993; [1]
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993; [1]
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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