Untitled
- Date
- 1990
- made in
- Netherlands, Europe
- Classification
- Collages & montages
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 19 3/8 × 25 1/8 in. (49.2 × 63.8 cm)
framed: 23 1/8 × 29 1/8 × 2 in. (58.7 × 74 × 5.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection, Gift of Ronald and Monique Ollie
- Rights
- © Sam Middleton estate, Courtesy of Spanierman Modern
- Object Number
- 174:2017
NOTES
Ripped and shredded ephemera form this textured collage. Upon closer inspection, stamps and receipts, musical scores with Dutch text, a small black-and-white image of windmills, and a map of the Netherlands become visible.
Sam Middleton, born and raised in Harlem, New York, spent much of his early life listening to jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Middleton met Romare Bearden in 1971 at an exhibition of Bearden’s work in Geneva, Switzerland, and the pair remained in touch until the end of Bearden’s life. In a letter written to Middleton about his work, Bearden stated: “[it] gets more clean and fresh all the time, and I hear music in your paintings.”
Sam Middleton, born and raised in Harlem, New York, spent much of his early life listening to jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Middleton met Romare Bearden in 1971 at an exhibition of Bearden’s work in Geneva, Switzerland, and the pair remained in touch until the end of Bearden’s life. In a letter written to Middleton about his work, Bearden stated: “[it] gets more clean and fresh all the time, and I hear music in your paintings.”
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