
Henry Moore
Ideas for Sculpture
1937
Not on View
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Clyfford Still
May 1944
This early work by American Abstract Expressionists Clyfford Still was exhibited in the artist’s first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s museum-gallery, Art of This Century in 1946. In the introduction to the exhibition's catalogue, Mark Rorhko wrote “For me, Still’s pictorial dramas are an extension of the Greek Persephone Myth.” It has been argued (by David Anfam) that Jamais depicts Persephone’s mother, Demeter, searching for her daughter, who has been abducted to the underworld by Hades. As the Goddess of Agriculture, Demeter’s quest devastates the harvest, corresponding to Still’s experience of the Dust Bowl in the American Great Plains in the 1930s.
On view
Artist | Clyfford Still |
Date | May 1944 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 165.2 x 82 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 153 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
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Henry Moore
1937
Not on View
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1920
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Man Ray
1925(?)
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Berenice Abbott
1942
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