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#16c

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Paul Reed

"Like Noland, Reed is a member of the Washington Color School. Reed explores the range of optical effects achieved by various color relationships in the same patterns. There is, according to H. H. Arnason, a "sense of symbolic content through highly simplified elements" Reed's work. The central orb glows hypnotically in "#16c"." 19th & 20th century art from collections of alumni & friends : inaugural exhibition, September 11 - November 8, 1970, Elvehjem Art Center (1970), p. 103.
Artist
Paul Reed
(American, 1919 - 2015)
Title
#16c
Date
1965
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
25 5/8 x 35 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of John W. English
Accession No.
69.22.1
Classification
Paintings
Geography
United States

Related

3 September 1969, gifted by John W. English (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Century Art from Collections of Alumni & Friends." Madison, WI: Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1970. p. 103, no. 123

  • Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Cen. Art from Collection of Alumni & Friends: Elvehjem Art Center, 9/11/1970–11/8/1970

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