Construct III-D

1980

Barbara Kasten

Associated Names
Barbara Kasten

Artist, American, born 1936

The image displays geometric shapes on a textured surface with a purple and black background. The shapes include a translucent rectangular prism, a semi-transparent cube, and a round disc. The color palette consists of light blue, purple, grey, and black. The rectangular prism overlaps with the cube, and the round disc is positioned at the bottom right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    dye diffusion transfer print (Polacolor)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gregory and Aline Gooding

  • Dimensions

    image: 19 × 23.9 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.4 × 27.4 cm (8 7/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.199.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gregory V. Gooding, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Barbara Kasten 1980; lower left on sheet in black ink: 2/5 Construct III-D; on verso, lower right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: POLAROID / M92838A84374A

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