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  4. Passages: East, West 1

Raymond Jennings Saunders

American, born 1934

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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

Collection Highlights

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  • Dialogue I, 1960

    Adolph Gottlieb

    A rectangular white canvas sits horizontally. In the top-right corner, there is a large black circle; a large red circle of roughly equal size is adjacent to the black dot, toward the center of the canvas. Beneath these dots are energetic and erratic swirls of black paint with splatter and drips on their edges.
  • L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman), 1883-1885

    James Tissot

    A woman in an elaborately ruffled pink dress with a large feathered fan enters an ornately decorated ballroom filled with party-goers on the arm of a much older gentleman. She looks left and outward beyond the viewer, while the attention of nearly all other male figures in the scene is directed at her. The textures of various surfaces and fabrics are painted with rich detail and texture, especially the pink dress ruffles gathered on a plush red ottoman at the bottom of the frame.
  • Le Vociférant (The Loud One), 1973

    Jean Dubuffet

    A number of small, irregularly shaped metal fragments are adhered together at various angles to form the contours of a vaguely humanoid figure. Each of these white fragments is heavily edged in black, and most of their interiors are filled with thin blue or red stripes; a small number of fragments are solid white, red, or blue. shape like a hand with three fingers and a thumb sticks out to the left side, midway down.
  • Year of Meteors, 1961

    Robert Indiana

    At the center of the painting is a blue, eight-pointed star against a green background within two concentric circles of stenciled, all-capitalized text on white. The circle within the smaller of these rings is green, and the background visible outside the larger of these rings is blue. The text in the smaller of these rings is blue and the text in the larger of these rings is green.
  • Only God Knows I'm Good, 2009 (produced 2011)

    Tracey Emin

    The phrase “Only God Knows I’m Good” in cursive English script is fabricated in snow white neon, which is mounted on a wall.
  • 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
  • Jill, 1959

    Frank Stella

    A pattern of concentric, white diamond shapes fills this otherwise black canvas. The pattern extends from the paintings center at regular intervals of two and a half inches with the largest diamonds partially cut off at the work’s edges.
  • Kindergrab (No. 243), 1999

    Thomas Scheibitz

    Kindergrab (No. 243)
  • Civil Tapestry 5, 2012

    Theaster Gates

    This large-scale wall-mounted sculpture features forty-one sections of fire hose of equal size laid vertically side-by-side. From left to right, the sections of fire hose progressively appear more worn. The dominant color of the fabric gradually transitions from yellow to tones of gray. Some sections of the fire hose are stamped with black letters spelling out the original manufacturer specifications.

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