Skip to Content

Architectural Abstraction

Showing 1 of 1


  FILTER RESULTS

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
Link to this object
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.

Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: Alfonso Dargis

Date, lower left: 1962


Provenance
Gift of the artist to Gertrude Herdle Moore, 1962; her gift to the Gallery in 1964

Keywords Click a term to view the records with the same keyword

Additional Images Click an image to view a larger version

Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Portfolio List Click a portfolio name to view all the objects in that portfolio
This object is a member of the following portfolios:


Your current search criteria is: Object is "Architectural Abstraction".

View current selection of records as:
CDWA Lite XML LIDO XML VRA Core 4 MODS XML Objects JSON