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Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: "Yes", 1956, casein on hardboard, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2014.136.77

Homage to the Square: "Yes"

Josef Albers · 1956 · casein on hardboard ·  Accession ID  2014.136.77

Trees and mountains nearly fill this composition and are painted with long, mostly parallel brushstrokes in this horizontal landscape. The trees are painted with long dashes of royal and aquamarine blue, pine and mint green to suggest leaves on coral-red trunks. The grass below is lemon-lime yellow, and a walking path is picked out with lavender-purple strokes. The mountains beyond the trees are painted with flat areas of coral, apricot orange, and cobalt blue. The sky above is pale turquoise with a few swirling, cream-colored clouds.
André Derain, Mountains at Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.4

Mountains at Collioure

André Derain · 1905 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1982.76.4

Angular, geometric shapes in charcoal and smoke black, pewter and silver gray, white, pale pink, and coral orange pile up to form a rough pyramid shape that fills the height of this square, abstract painting. More fragmented shapes in cobalt, azure, and light blue fill the upper left and right corners to either side of the apex, and one triangular space on its middle left. The artist has inscribed, “LA PROCESSION SEVILLE” in black capital letters near the top right edge and “Picabia” in the lower right.
Francis Picabia, The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund and Gift of Barbara Rothschild Michaels from the Collection of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1997, 1997.43.1

The Procession, Seville

Francis Picabia · 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1997.43.1

Jean (Hans) Arp, Mirr, 1936/1960, marble, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, 1977.75.6

Mirr

Jean (Hans) Arp · 1936/1960 · marble ·  Accession ID  1977.75.6

Claes Oldenburg, Soft Drainpipe - Red (Hot) Version, 1967, vinyl lined with canvas, filled with expanded polystyrene chips, on painted metal stand, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.75.1

Soft Drainpipe - Red (Hot) Version

Claes Oldenburg · 1967 · vinyl lined with canvas, filled with expanded polystyrene chips, on painted metal stand ·  Accession ID  1990.75.1

Saul Steinberg, Atelier Mourlot, The Tree, 1969, color lithograph with watercolor, graphite, ink, collage, and rubber-stamping on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II), 2015.19.2762

The Tree

Saul Steinberg, Atelier Mourlot · 1969 · color lithograph with watercolor, graphite, ink, collage, and rubber-stamping on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2762

A tangerine-colored rectangle and a butter yellow rectangle float against a golden yellow field in this abstract, vertical painting. At the top, the tangerine rectangle extends nearly the width of the painting and goes from near the top edge to just short of halfway down the painting. Below it, a larger rectangle in glowing yellow tones anchors the bottom three-fifths of the painting. The yellow of the bottom rectangle varies from sunshine yellow to tan. The warm, ochre-colored background is painted in a flat, uniform way, and it creates a border around and between the rectangles. The brushstrokes within the rectangles have soft, indistinct edges, with a blurred effect. The tangerine-colored rectangle is formed with upward vertical strokes made with a wide brush that are denser at the bottom and end in a wispy edge at the top. The bottom yellow rectangle has varied brushwork that forms soft, and indistinct cloud-like shapes within the geometric form. At the bottom right edge of the upper, tangerine rectangle, a hint of a vertical, blue-green stroke of paint emerges from beneath the ochre background. Around the edges of the lower, yellow rectangle are subtle hints of tangerine and sometimes blue-green bleeding from around all four edges.
Mark Rothko, Orange and Tan, 1954, pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas, Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1977.47.13

Orange and Tan

Mark Rothko · 1954 · pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1977.47.13

Maurice de Vlaminck, Woman with a Hat, 1906, oil on canvas, Donated by Lolo Sarnoff in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert von Hirsch, 1981.84.1

Woman with a Hat

Maurice de Vlaminck · 1906 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1981.84.1

This abstract, geometric painting has been tipped on one corner to create a diamond form rather than a square. The surface of the canvas is crisscrossed by an irregular grid of black lines running vertically and horizontally like offset ladders. The black lines create squares and rectangles of different sizes, and the width of the lines vary slightly. One complete square sits at the center of the composition and is painted white. Other rectangles are incomplete, their corners sliced by the edge of the canvas, and each is a different shade of white with hints of pale blue and gray. The black grid creates triangular forms where it meets the angled edge of the canvas in some places, and some of these are filled with flat areas of color. A tomato-red triangle is placed to the left of the top center point, and a vibrant yellow triangle is to the left of the lower center point. A black triangle is next to it at the bottom center, and a cobalt-blue triangle is situated just below the right point. The painting is signed with the artist’s initials at the lower center: “PM.”
Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, c. 1924/1925, oil on canvas, Gift of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1971.51.1

Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black

Piet Mondrian · c. 1924/1925 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.51.1

Albert Gleizes, Football Players, 1912/1913, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1970.11.1

Football Players

Albert Gleizes · 1912/1913 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.11.1