Stacked Color with Wavy and Straight Side

1971

Richard Tuttle

Associated Names
Richard Tuttle

Artist, American, born 1941

The image displays an abstract arrangement of colorful, wavy lines forming a looped shape next to a vertical series of horizontal stripes. The looped shape consists of parallel bands of red, orange, blue, green, and yellow transitioning smoothly. The stripes appear like a brightly colored ladder or stack of multicolored tiles beside the looped shape. There is a contrast between the organic form and the linear stripes, highlighting the abstract composition.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York, NY; purchase/gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11, 1977-January 1, 1978

1988

  • From the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York and tour, 1988-1989

1992

  • The Poetry of Form, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, 1992.

1993

  • The Poetry of Form, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 1993-1995.

1995

  • Richard Tuttle Selected Works: 1964-1994, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1995, 50, fig.16.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 120a.

2002

  • Memento. Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto. 6/28/2002-9/29/2002

  • cENTER. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela. 06/27/2002-9/22/2002

2005

  • "The Art of Richard Tuttle", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, 2005-2006, no. 155.

Bibliography

1977

  • Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1977, 185.

1992

  • The Poetry of Form, Richard Tuttle/Drawings from the Vogel Collection, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain, 1992

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 120a.

2002

  • de Galicia, Xunta. Richard Tuttle. (Exh. cat. Museu de Art Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto & Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela) Porto, Spain, 2002: p. 35.

Inscriptions

upper right verso in graphite: RICHARD TUTTLE / "STACKED COLOR WITH WAVY SIDE/ AND STRAIGHT SIDE" / 1971 watercolor

Wikidata ID

Q64628609

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