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Numark Gallery

Numark, Cheryl

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This painting displays a collection of bold, colorful, abstract lines and shapes interwoven across a pale background. Rectangles, L-shapes, and crescent-like forms in vibrant colors such as red, blue, black, green, and yellow are present. The lines intersect and overlap.
Sharon Louden, Community, 2013, oil and enamel on stretched paper, on panel, Gift of Cheryl Numark, 2021.60.1

Community

Sharon Louden · 2013 · oil and enamel on stretched paper, on panel ·  Accession ID  2021.60.1

The image shows four abstract panels with distinct shapes and patterns. The first panel features a grid of circular dots forming the outline of a house with a triangle roof against a background hinting at sky and grass. The second panel displays abstract shapes resembling two trees with trunks and layered leaves made of rounded forms. The third panel shows dots arranged to suggest a scene with a sandy beach meeting a body of water, with a clear horizon line in between. The fourth panel shows the silhouette of birds in flight against a yellow, textured background. Each panel uses a grid or repetitive pattern to create cohesive scenes that connect to familiar objects like a house, trees, a landscape, and birds.
Jennifer Bartlett, Patricia Branstead, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., From Rhapsody: House, Trees, Beach, Bird, 1985, color photo-etching, sugarlift, aquatint, spitbite, and drypoint on four sheets of wove T. H. Saunders paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, 1995), 2016.22.28.1-4

From Rhapsody: House, Trees, Beach, Bird

Jennifer Bartlett, Patricia Branstead, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. · 1985 · color photo-etching, sugarlift, aquatint, spitbite, and drypoint on four sheets of wove T. H. Saunders paper ·  Accession ID  2016.22.28.1-4

The image shows parallel black vertical bars with narrow white outlines forming an abstract shape. The bars are evenly spaced and lean diagonally to the right, creating a symmetrical and orderly pattern.
Donald Judd, Styria Studio, Untitled, 1974, aquatint in black on wove paper, Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, 2016.148.18

Untitled

Donald Judd, Styria Studio · 1974 · aquatint in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2016.148.18