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Contemporary Art: Acquisitions 1957–1958

Monday, December 8, 1958–Sunday, January 18, 1959

Installation view of Contemporary Art: Acquisitions 1957–1958. Image courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York.

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1954, 1954

Clyfford Still

1954

Tsepheej (Cricket), 1957

Jaroslav Serpan

Tsepheej (Cricket)

Fire World, 1957

Karel Appel

Fire World

White Bird, 1957

William Baziotes

White Bird

Theme and Variations #1, 1957

Ibram Lassaw

Theme and Variations #1

Tanktotem IV, 1953

David Smith

A series of three-dimensional geometric forms balance on two forked legs in the front and a third leg in the back. Overall, the sculpture abstractly mimics the human form: a vertical half circle at the top serves as a head and is connected to the rest of the work by a long vertical rectangle that resembles a neck. Two additional long rectangles at the center of the work sit alongside further half circles that resemble a shoulder and two hips.

Fields of Grain as Seen from Train, 1931

Arthur Garfield Dove

Geometric forms in different shades of red, green, and light brown shape this abstract landscape. A large green triangular shape stripped with seven black furrows, stretches from the middle of the top edge to the bottom-right corner and toward to the bottom-left corner. A dark red shape with a scalloped edge borders the right side of the triangle, and a light brown sphere patterned with five horizontal waves peeks out from behind the triangle’s left side.

New England, October, 1957

Grace Hartigan

New England, October

Curved Form, 1956

Barbara Hepworth

Curved Form

Sommernachtstraum (Summer Night's Dream), 1957

Hans Hofmann

Sommernachtstraum (Summer Night's Dream)

Summer Day 57, 1957

Philippe Hosiasson

Summer Day 57

Lulworth, 1956

Peter Lanyon

Lulworth

Odalisque, 1957

Conrad Marca-Relli

Odalisque

From Elements of Evening, 1957

Boris Margo

From Elements of Evening

First Avenue, 1957

Georges Mathieu

First Avenue

Femme et oiseaux dans la nuit (Woman and Birds in the Night), 1945

Joan Miró

Femme et oiseaux dans la nuit (Woman and Birds in the Night)

George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 1957

Joan Mitchell

Large, energetic brushstrokes in green, brown, black, red, blue, and white cover portions of this abstract painting’s white background. These marks are primarily concentrated in two areas: in the top half of the canvas, especially in the center, and on its lower edge, especially in the center and toward the right corner.

Counterpoint, 1956

Tetsuo Ochikubo

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Green Patio Door, 1955, 1955

Georgia O'Keeffe

Green Patio Door, 1955

Study #3, 1957

Jerry Tsukio Okimoto

Study #3

Imagined Music, 1957

Kurt Roesch

Imagined Music

Synchromy in Orange: To Form, 1913-1914

Morgan Russell

A vibrant array of colorful geometric forms abut and overlap one another in the abstract kaleidoscopic patterning that covers this large, vertically oriented canvas. The colors range from red, blue, green, and orange, to pink, black, maroon, and white. A thin red painted line separates the bulk of the composition from a border of red, yellow, blue, and green rectangles alternating with white.

Composition #10 - Three Lines, 1957

Tadashi Sato

Composition #10 - Three Lines

Painting 61-C, 1957

Gérard Ernest Albert Schneider

Painting 61-C

Levant for E. W. R., 1958

Theodoros Stamos

Levant for E. W. R.

Deux Personages (Two Persons), 1957

Gene Vass

Deux Personages (Two Persons)

Tall Spike Form, 1957

Robert Adams

Tall Spike Form

Painting 1957, 1957

Sandra Blow

Painting 1957

La Chute (The Fall), 1957

Bram Bogart

La Chute (The Fall)

Lumière aeolienne (Aeolian Light), 1957

Manolis Calliyannis

Lumière aeolienne (Aeolian Light)

Mt. Holyoke #45, 1956

Edward M. Corbett

Mt. Holyoke #45

From the Sea, 1958

Rollin McNeil Crampton

From the Sea

Composition, 1957

Horia Damian

Composition

L'Aile (Wing), 1957

Jacques Delahaye

L'Aile (Wing)

Red Beat 6, 1958

Robyn Denny

Red Beat 6

Woman in a Window, 1957

Richard Diebenkorn

Woman in a Window

Table and Flowers with Deck Chairs, 1958

Donald Hamilton Fraser

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Figure 2 "Mar", 1958

Franco Garelli

Figure 2 "Mar"

Summer House, 1958

Michael Goldberg

Summer House

Sleeping Figure, 1958

Peter Kinley

Sleeping Figure

Icarus, 1957

Ger Lataster

Icarus

Summer, 1958

Doris Lee

Summer

Startled Bird, 1955

Bernard Meadows

Startled Bird

In the Forest, 1957

Richard Pousette-Dart

In the Forest

No. 15, 1952

Ad Reinhardt

No. 15

Agincourt, 1958

Frank Roth

Agincourt

Alaska I, 1958

Hedda Sterne

Alaska I

Mindanao, 1952-1955

Victor Vasarely

Mindanao

Winter Light, 1956

Norman Carton

Winter Light

Turbulent Forest, 1956

Carl Morris

Turbulent Forest

Round Trip, 1957

Helen Frankenthaler

Round Trip

The Struggle, 1957

Robert Arthur Goodnough

The Struggle

3 Avril 1954, 1954

Pierre Soulages

3 Avril 1954

L'Etoile (Star), 1956

Jean (Hans) Arp

L'Etoile (Star)

T55-28, 1955

Hans Hartung

T55-28

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