László Moholy-Nagy

American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946

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From very high up, we look down along the height of a metal radio tower at a plaza on the ground, which is dotted with umbrellas, tables, and chairs in this vertical black and white photograph. The side of the tower fills almost the height of the right edge of this image. Crisscrossing girders form diamond shapes down the sides, enclosing stairways and other structures. In the plaza below, the tables and chairs create cross and asterisk shapes around the disks of the umbrellas, seen from above. Along the bottom of the photograph, and cut off by that edge, the tables and a skeletal awning creates a ring around a circular area, presumably grass.
László Moholy-Nagy, Funkturm Berlin (Radio Tower Berlin), 1928, gelatin silver print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.31.1

Funkturm Berlin (Radio Tower Berlin)

László Moholy-Nagy · 1928 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2007.31.1

A circle and several parallelograms float, changing color where they overlap, against a mustard and lemon-yellow background in this abstract, vertical painting. The circle is near the upper left corner, and stretches almost halfway across the canvas. The circle is mostly elephant gray and is black where the angular forms overlap it. All of the parallelograms are vertical except for one that cuts across them and the circle. The parallelograms are mostly ivory white, pale pink, stone gray, or light turquoise where they intersect, except for one that turns from ruby red to brick red within the circle and the leftmost shape, which has a pattern of small black dots against slate gray.
László Moholy-Nagy, Z VII, 1926, oil and graphite on canvas, Gift of Richard S. Zeisler, 2007.112.1

Z VII

László Moholy-Nagy · 1926 · oil and graphite on canvas ·  Accession ID  2007.112.1

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Positive), c. 1922-1924, gelatin silver print from photogram negative, Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art, 1999.23.2

Untitled (Positive)

László Moholy-Nagy · c. 1922-1924 · gelatin silver print from photogram negative ·  Accession ID  1999.23.2

László Moholy-Nagy, Construction IX, 1922, color lithograph in black and green on wove paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.145

Construction IX

László Moholy-Nagy · 1922 · color lithograph in black and green on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.145

László Moholy-Nagy, Q, 1922/1923, collage with watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on cream paper attached to carbon paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.27.1

Q

László Moholy-Nagy · 1922/1923 · collage with watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on cream paper attached to carbon paper ·  Accession ID  1982.27.1

László Moholy-Nagy, Abstraction III, 1922, linocut, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.75.2

Abstraction III

László Moholy-Nagy · 1922 · linocut ·  Accession ID  1971.75.2

László Moholy-Nagy, Abstraction II, 1922, linocut, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.75.1

Abstraction II

László Moholy-Nagy · 1922 · linocut ·  Accession ID  1971.75.1

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, c. 1922-1924, gelatin silver print, New Century Fund, 2006.130.1

Untitled

László Moholy-Nagy · c. 1922-1924 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2006.130.1