Untitled
Joanne Greenbaum
(American, born in 1953)
2004
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsHeight x width: 91.4 × 91.4 cm (36 × 36 in.)
Credit LineGift of Barbara Glauber in memory of Robert Glauber
Accession number2021.590
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Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionUntitled is a striking painting that resembles a city view of a map, but one with no clear orientation or order, instead just a tangle of numbers and colors atop an uneven grid. Its looseness and automatic quality are highly representative of Greenbaum’s paintings often which use several kinds of paint and painting techniques in a single image. The black lined bounds of the central drawing recall Greenbaum’s sculptures which she has began making in the last decade as another way to explore abstracted visual language.
Provenance2009, sold by D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York to Barbara Glauber, Brookline, MA; 2021, gift of Barbara Glauber, Boston to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 30, 2021)
