Untitled
- Date
- 1968
- Material
- Acrylic
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 19 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (49.5 × 48.9 cm)
framed: 25 1/8 in. × 25 1/8 in. × 2 in. (63.8 × 63.8 × 5.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection, Gift of Ronald and Monique Ollie
- Rights
- © Ed Clark / Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
- Object Number
- 125:2017
NOTES
In this work, horizontal bands of color slice across a round sheet. Ed Clark is considered among the first American artists to experiment with shaped supports, a radical departure from traditional rectangular formats, which redefined painting. He first exhibited his transformative shaped work, which had elements extending beyond the frame, in 1957 at the Brata Gallery. This was an influential venue in New York at the heart of the city’s mid-century avant-garde art scene. In 1968, he began to explore circular and oval profiles, of which this work is an early example.
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