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Kanton

1966

Friedel Dzubas

Associated Names

Friedel Dzubas

Painter, American, 1915 - 1994

The image shows several elongated organic shapes in various colors layered horizontally across the canvas. The shapes resemble flat stones or cushions stacked unevenly. The colors include muted red, purple with a thin yellow stripe, green, blue, brown, and a lighter blue. The background is textured green.

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Artwork overview

Medium

Magna on canvas
Credit Line

Gift of Charles Millard in memory of Michael Barclay Watson
Dimensions

overall: 172.72 × 304.8 cm (68 × 120 in.)
framed: 174.63 × 307.98 × 5.4 cm (68 3/4 × 121 1/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Accession Number

2004.46.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gene Baro, Washington, D.C., by at least 1974. Charles Millard, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; gift 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

Friedel Dzubas: A Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974, no. 3, repro. (illustrated vertically; incorrectly dated 1960).

Inscriptions

center reverse: Dzubas/66 / "KANTON"

Wikidata ID

Q20196605

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