Untitled. From the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Painters.'
Print
1964 (published)
1964 (published)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
On leaving high school in the mid-1950s Larry Poons studied music in Boston, where one of his tutors was the avant-garde musician/artist, John Cage. Recognising that his talent as a visual artist was greater than as a musician, Poons soon switched to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to study painting, but his work continued to be influenced by his interest in music. Ideas around musical notation and the cross-over elements of chance and structure, which seem evident in works such as this print, may have come directly or indirectly from Cage. In the 1960s Poons' painting devolved toward painting coloured dots floating on a contrasting field of colour – a technique which spearheaded the ‘op’art movement, but this style of working was soon superseded by more his more expressionistic handling of paint. [Another impression of this print is Circ.130-1969.]
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Untitled. From the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Painters.' |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint |
| Brief description | Larry Poons: Untitled. Screenprint from the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Artists' published by the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964 |
| Physical description | Image a grid of faint grey lines - diagonal and rectangular - on a white ground. Patterned irregularly within this grid with small black dots and ellipses |
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| Style | |
| Copy number | 67/500 |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Not signed or dated. Blind stamped with the printer's chop mark) |
| Credit line | Acquired from Peter Tunnard in 1969. |
| Production | Printing was by Sirocco under supervision of Ives-Sillman |
| Summary | On leaving high school in the mid-1950s Larry Poons studied music in Boston, where one of his tutors was the avant-garde musician/artist, John Cage. Recognising that his talent as a visual artist was greater than as a musician, Poons soon switched to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to study painting, but his work continued to be influenced by his interest in music. Ideas around musical notation and the cross-over elements of chance and structure, which seem evident in works such as this print, may have come directly or indirectly from Cage. In the 1960s Poons' painting devolved toward painting coloured dots floating on a contrasting field of colour – a technique which spearheaded the ‘op’art movement, but this style of working was soon superseded by more his more expressionistic handling of paint. [Another impression of this print is Circ.130-1969.] |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.537-1969 |
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| Record created | March 7, 2008 |
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