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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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  • Crowded Hearts, 1987

    John Chamberlain

    Crumpled and compacted pieces of red, silver, and white metal from old cars form freestanding, pillar-like shape. The metal is mostly shiny but is battered and rusted in some places.
  • Le Panthéon et Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (The Pantheon and Saint-Étienne-du-Mont), ca. 1903-1906

    Raoul Dufy

    A large building topped by a dome held aloft by classical pillars dominates this brightly lit city scene. The building extends from the right edge of the canvas. On the left, a clear blue skills fills the area above a church with a large bell tower and a section of yellow cobblestones partially filled by a number of pedestrians.
  • Soft Manhattan #1 (Postal Zones), 1966

    Claes Oldenburg

    The overall shape of this wall-mounted sculpture is similar to the outline of the island of Manhattan as it might appear on a map. The sculpture is made up of roughly thirty-five beige, tan, brown, and gray bags stacked together. These bags are shaped and positioned to mirror the outlines of the city’s postal zones.
  • Figure triste (Sad Figure), 1912

    Francis Picabia

    Figure triste (Sad Figure)
  • Untitled (take a giant step), 2001

    Lorna Simpson

    Untitled (take a giant step)
  • 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.
  • Born, 2002

    Kiki Smith

    A life-sized nude female figure emerges head-first from the rear of a standing deer. Only her feet remain inside the animal, and the rest of her body is angled toward the floor, with her left shoulder making contact. She cranes her neck slightly to gaze back toward the deer, who has large ears and small antler nubs. The bronze surface of the sculpture is smooth and has a dark uniform patina, making it appear black.
  • Untitled, 1986

    Olivier Mosset

    This large, horizontally oriented abstract painting is visually divided into two square portions. On the left, alternating red and purple stripes of the same width span the height of the canvas. On the right, stripes of the same color and size run horizontally from the right edge to the painting’s overall center. The lines formed by the stripes are very straight and even.
  • Femme cousant (Woman Sewing), ca. 1879

    Berthe Morisot

    The profile of a young woman bent intensely over the sewing work she holds in her hands fills the foreground of this portrait-oriented painting. Her caramel-colored hair is pulled back from her face in a bun, and she wears a dark green dress topped with a white lace shawl. In the background, a white urn and a wooden box open to reveal its red interior sit on top of a table covered in a cream colored and floral patterned cloth.

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