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  4. Passages: East, West 1

Raymond Jennings Saunders

American, 1934-2025

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Passages: East, West 1, 1987

Artwork Details

Recent Acquisition

Materials

acrylic, spray paint, chalk, collage, and mixed media on canvas

Measurements

support: 82 x 75 7/8 inches (208.28 x 192.72 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 2024

Accession ID

2024:42

Object Classifications:

Paintings

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • America: the third century, 1975

    Allan D'Arcangelo, William Bailey, James Brooks, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Andrew Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Raymond Jennings Saunders, Ben Schonzeit, Costantino Nivola, Velox Ward

    America: the third century
  • Duck Out of Water from the portfolio America: the third century, 1975

    Raymond Jennings Saunders

    Duck Out of Water from the portfolio America: the third century

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  • Peristyle: Five Lines, 1963-1964

    George Rickey

    Peristyle: Five Lines
  • Untitled, 1998-2002

    Gregory Crewdson

    This large-scale color photograph captures a mysterious scene staged in a domestic bathroom, which is presented in cross-section. In the center of the frame, a white man, wearing only briefs, is bent over on the floor of a shower stall. His right arm reaches through the drain and is visible in the dark crawlspace below floor level where a pipe would normally be connected. The dim light filtering through a small window on the left evokes a sense of twilight.
  • June 4-52 (tableform), 1952

    Ben Nicholson

    A series of roughly rectangular shapes of pale blue, green, yellow, and white layer over and under each other across the surface of this portrait-oriented oil painting. A loose geometric patterning in thin black pencil overlays some of the shapes near the bottom center. A small, bright red triangle pops out from near the bottom left corner.
  • Untitled, 1969

    Donald Judd

    Ten identical boxes industrially fabricated out of galvanized iron and orange Plexiglas protrude seemingly weightlessly from the wall in a vertical stack. Each box is separated from the unit above and below by a space equal to its height. When lit from above, the sculpture casts a dramatic pattern of orange and gray shadows on the adjacent walls and floor.
  • Ocean Park No. 66, 1973

    Richard Diebenkorn

    Ocean Park No. 66
  • Page Boy at Maxim's, ca. 1927

    Chaïm Soutine

    In this tall, narrow portrait, painted with loose, energetic brush strokes, a young man wearing a deep red uniform with matching cap stands in front of a dark burgundy, gray, green, and blue background. A row of gold buttons extends down the front of the boy’s jacket. His right hand is by his side, palm facing out, and his left hand is clenched in front of his waist. The figure’s dark eyes, hair, and moustache stand out again his pale skin.
  • Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow, 1940-1942

    Piet Mondrian

    Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow
  • Child's Blue Wall, 1962

    Jim Dine

    A field of hand-painted white stars alternating with dark blue dots fills the light blue background of this nearly square canvas. Attached to the bottom-right corner is a what appears to be the base of a child’s table lamp, complete with a blocky castle and toy soldier painted in solid shades of white, blue, and red beneath a shadeless, illuminated bulb. Midway up the left edge of painting is a light switch with a blue plate and worn white switch.
  • Composition, ca. 1918-1920

    Alexander Rodchenko

    Composition

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