Architectural Abstraction
1962
20 1/8 x 27 1/8 in. (51.1 x 68.9 cm)
Alfonsas Dargis
United States
(Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Object Type:
Watercolor
Medium and Support:
Watercolor, oil and ink on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Gertrude H. Moore
Accession Number:
1964.81
Location: Not currently on view
The soft-edged haziness of the architectural forms in this painting, an effect resulting from the layering of different paint colors, gives it a dreamlike quality that contrasts with Dargis’s graphic, linear woodcuts. The artist was a master of multiple techniques.