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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

Collection Highlights

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  • Portrait (R. Eisch), 1999

    Thomas Ruff

    The head and shoulders of a white adult male with short brunette hair, blue eyes, and a reddish-brown goatee beard and moustache fill the majority of this large-scale color photograph. He wears a pale blue button-up shirt with a collar; the top-most button is left open. Minute details in the figure’s skin and shadows on the fabric are captured by the camera lens.
  • Sun and Rocks, 1918-1950

    Charles Ephraim Burchfield

    Sun and Rocks
  • Over the Edge, 1992

    Peter Halley

    A light gray-green square sits slightly above center and fills much of this square canvas. L shapes of varying widths in cream, burnt orange, black, and mustard yellow extend from the square into the taupe-colored margins above and to the left and right of the square. Two additional brighter yellow L shapes, one dramatically thicker than the other, extend from the square into the burgundy-colored margin below the square.
  • Laura, 2012

    Jaume Plensa

    The highly elongated head of a young woman with her eyes closed in layered slabs of white marble sits on a patch of grass in front of a portion of the museum’s columned façade.
  • Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering), 1935

    Paul Klee

    Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering)
  • La Maison de La Crau (The Old Mill), 1888

    Vincent van Gogh

    Loose thick brushstrokes in a vibrant palette define a rural scene beneath a turquoise green sky. On the right is a tall sandy colored building with a yellow roof and brownish-red chimney. Steps leads from the structure toward the left-hand side of the image, where, two people stand in front of a purple fence. Beyond the fence and toward the upper left of the image are green fields dotted with small houses and blue mountains in the far distance.
  • Orange and Yellow, 1956

    Mark Rothko

    Two hazily painted rectangles, one yellow and the second a burnt orange, float against an orange creamsicle colored background, which is visible along the margins of the canvas and in a strip separating the two rectangles. The yellow rectangle is smaller, extending about a third of the way down from the top of the canvas. The burnt orange rectangle fills much of the bottom two thirds of the canvas.
  • Bucolic Landscape, 1945

    Milton Avery

    A bright yellow cow, seen from the rear, sits in a grassy field on the left side of this horizontally oriented canvas. On the right, a reddish path leads into a dense woodland, and above the cow on the left, a narrow rectangle of pink sky emerges behind rolling green hills. Short red flowers are visible in the foreground, and a single, scraggly tree juts out of the ground in the upper-left corner. The colors are soft and bright, suggesting a warm, sunny day.
  • Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons, 1782

    Jacques-Louis David

    Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons

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