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Watercolor
The Garden of Charlotte Whitney Allen
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (54.6 x 39.4 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
1969
1969
1969
1900-2000, 20th century, American art, by Rochester artists, from Rochester collections, Rochester, NY, views of Rochester & western New York, watercolors
Watercolor
lower left
1989.30
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Mathematical Abstraction No. 5 "Study in complementaries"
Projective Ornament
Claude Fayette Bragdon, 1866 - 1946
Bragdon, Claude Fayette
United States
1866 - 1946
Male
28 3/8 x 20 5/16 in. (72.1 x 51.6 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
ca. 1939-1941
1939
1941
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, polyhedron, pyramid, watercolors
Watercolor
Bragdon’s Mathematical Abstractions is a set of images based on mathematical relationships and suggestive of cosmic forms in the solar system. This series grew out of Bragdon’s continued interest in uniting color, form, and music.
The series was exhibited in 1941-42 in Hartford, New York City, and finally in Rochester at the Memorial Art Gallery, where Bragdon’s patrons, Dr. and Mrs. James Sibley Watson, agreed to purchase this one for MAG. Bragdon wrote about the gift to Isabel Herdle, MAG curator, in 1944: “It is the one which your sister [Gertrude Herdle Moore, MAG director] and Fritz [Trautmann] decided would be best and which was also settled upon by Mrs. Watson and myself.”
The Mathematical Abstraction series was best described by the artist in the 1941-42 exhibition brochure:
"These fifteen water-color paintings represent the final distillation of Mr. Bragdon’s creative ability in a field which he has made his own. Although susceptible of classification as non-representational, or non-objective art, they are unique by reason of the fact that Mr. Bragdon is a skilled mathematician and geometer as well as an artist. He does not wish these paintings to be viewed, however, from any other standpoint than that of their intrinsic beauty—their purely aesthetic appeal. He believes that mathematical truth is at the root of all beauty, and that in the same sense that music may be said to be the beauty of mathematics made audible, so are these paintings mathematics made visible. After having made many hundred drawings, Mr. Bragdon made the paintings here and now exhibited, which from one point of view might be regarded as so many 'stills' of color symphonies seen by the author 'in his mind’s eye.'
One of the pioneers in the new art of Color Music, Mr. Bragdon has from far back employed his spare time and his spare money in the construction of one “color-organ” after another, in which it was his idea to add luminosity, color, rhythm, mobility, to his designs derived from mathematical sources. Convinced, after many failures, that the most satisfactory way in which this might be accomplished was by the animated cartoon technique, he made a study of it with this in view, and tried to interest the moving picture people in his idea. None of them were prepared, however, to invest the necessary amount of money in what they regarded as an uncertain venture. Walt Disney, meantime, a free agent, with the means at his disposal, had gone ahead and in certain parts of “Fantasia”—notably in the “sound-track” sequence—approximated some of the color-music effects which Mr. Bragdon had had in mind."
Excerpt from Mathematical Abstractions exhibition brochure, 1941-42
[Gallery label text, 2010]
lower right
1944.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Alhambra Hill
George M. Haushalter, (Portland, ME, 1862 - 1943, Sodus Point, NY)
Haushalter, George M.
United States
1862 - 1943
Male
14 3/8 x 19 13/16 in. (36.5 x 50.3 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
1935
1935
1935
20th century, by Rochester artists, landscapes, mountains, paintings, Spain
Watercolor
lower right
1943.40
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Front
4/2/2007
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Watercolor
Old Brittany Church
George M. Haushalter, (Portland, ME, 1862 - 1943, Sodus Point, NY)
Haushalter, George M.
United States
1862 - 1943
Male
12 x 10 1/8 in. (30.5 x 25.7 cm)
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vertical
sheet
Gouache
Gouache
ca. 1900
1895
1905
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, churches, watercolors, women
Watercolor
verso
1943.38
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Dutch Farm Scene
George Leonard Herdle, 1868 - 1922
Herdle, George Leonard
United States
1868 - 1922
Male
21 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. (54.9 x 37.1 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
ca. 1899-1903
1899
1903
by Rochester artists
Watercolor
lower left
1982.19
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Reef and Gulls
Roy Martell Mason, 1886 - 1972
Mason, Roy Martell
United States
1886 - 1972
Male
22 3/4 x 31 1/4 in. (57.8 x 79.4 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
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Watercolor
1974.101
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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