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Night Lights

1951

Eugene Bennett

Associated Names

Eugene Bennett

Artist, American, 1921 - 2010

The image features vertical lines and dots on a dark background, resembling digital static or rainfall. The composition suggests falling raindrops or streams of binary code cascading down a screen. The varying lengths and densities of the lines and dots create a sense of vertical movement, similar to strands of light or data streams in a digital matrix.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color screenprint on black construction paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

sheet: 45.56 × 30.16 cm (17 15/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.842

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Exhibition History

2019

Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, 13 October 2018 - 15 April 2019, no. 98.

Bibliography

2018

Gallais, Jean-Marie.Peindre la Nuit. Metz, Centre Pompidou Metz, 2018: 150.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Night Lights; lower right in graphite: E Bennett

Wikidata ID

Q76442420

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