Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction 449.1974 A&D Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish, 1930–2017 Yellow Abakan 1967-68 Sisal 124 x 120 x 60" (315 x 304.8 x 152.4 cm) Gift of Mr. Walter Bareiss, Mrs. Watson K. Blair, Mr. Arthur Cohen, Mr. Don Page, and Anonymous Donor Accessioned object 996.2015 P&S Etel Adnan, American, born Lebanon, 1925 Untitled 1965/1966 Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 22 5/8" (54 × 57.5 cm) Gift of The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund (both by exchange) Accessioned object 408.1960 A&D Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994 Free-Hanging Room Divider c. 1949 Cotton, cellophane, and braided horsehair 87 x 32 1/2" (221 x 82.5 cm) Gift of the designer Accessioned object 200.1950 A&D Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994 Tapestry 1948 Handwoven linen and cotton 16 1/2 x 18 3/4" (41.9 x 47.6 cm) Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Purchase Fund Accessioned object 409.1960 A&D Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994 Free-Hanging Room Divider 1949 Cellophane and cord 94 x 32 1/2" (238.7 x 82.5 cm) Gift of the designer Accessioned object Page 1 of 19 Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction Print Date:04/26/2017 05:11 PM
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
449.1974
A&D
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish, 1930–2017
Yellow Abakan
1967-68
Sisal
124 x 120 x 60" (315 x 304.8 x 152.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. Walter Bareiss, Mrs. Watson K. Blair, Mr. Arthur Cohen,
Mr. Don Page, and Anonymous Donor
Accessioned object
996.2015
P&S
Etel Adnan, American, born Lebanon, 1925
Untitled
1965/1966
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 22 5/8" (54 × 57.5 cm)
Gift of The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation and Mrs.
Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund (both by exchange)
Accessioned object
408.1960
A&D
Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994
Free-Hanging Room Divider
c. 1949
Cotton, cellophane, and braided horsehair
87 x 32 1/2" (221 x 82.5 cm)
Gift of the designer
Accessioned object
200.1950
A&D
Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994
Tapestry
1948
Handwoven linen and cotton
16 1/2 x 18 3/4" (41.9 x 47.6 cm)
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Purchase Fund
Accessioned object
409.1960
A&D
Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994
Free-Hanging Room Divider
1949
Cellophane and cord
94 x 32 1/2" (238.7 x 82.5 cm)
Gift of the designer
Accessioned object
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1203.1967
P&IB
Anni Albers, American, born Germany. 1899–1994
Enmeshed I
1963
Lithograph
composition: 20 1/4 x 27 1/16" (51.4 x 68.7 cm); sheet: 20 1/4 x
27 1/16" (51.4 x 68.7 cm)
Edition: proof outside the edition of 20.
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Accessioned object
35.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Lines and Tones (Linhas e Tons)
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
14 7/8 × 11" (37.8 × 27.9 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Amie Rath Nuttall
Accessioned object
36.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
10 13/16 × 15 1/4" (27.5 × 38.7 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of David Dechman and Michel
Mercure
Accessioned object
37.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
10 13/16 × 12 3/16" (27.5 × 31 cm)
John Szarkowski Fund
Accessioned object
38.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Abstract Concrete (Concreto abstrato)
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
8 3/8 × 11 3/8" (21.3 × 28.9 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Thomas and Susan Dunn
Accessioned object
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
39.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
11 7/16 × 15 1/4" (29.1 × 38.7 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Lois Zenkel
Accessioned object
40.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
11 13/16 × 15 1/2" (30 × 39.4 cm)
John Szarkowski Fund
Accessioned object
41.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
11 5/8 × 15 9/16" (29.5 × 39.5 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Ian Cook
Accessioned object
42.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
11 3/8 × 11 3/8" (28.9 × 28.9 cm)
Agnes Rindge Claflin Fund
Accessioned object
43.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Untitled
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
15 1/16 × 11 1/2" (38.3 × 29.2 cm)
John Szarkowski Fund
Accessioned object
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
44.2016
PHOT
Gertrudes Altschul, Brazilian, born Germany. 1904–1962
Filigree (Filigrana)
c. 1952
Gelatin silver print
13 5/8 × 11 5/8" (34.6 × 29.5 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Amie Rath Nuttall
Accessioned object
PG1335.2016
P&S
Ruth Asawa, American, 1926–2013
Untitled
c. 1955
Brass wire, iron wire, and galvanized iron wire
116 × 14 1/2 × 14 1/2" (294.6 × 36.8 × 36.8 cm)
Promised gift of Alice and Tom Tisch
Promised Gift
1591.1967
P&IB
Ruth Asawa, American, 1926–2013
Desert Flower
1965
Lithograph
composition (irreg.): 17 7/16 x 17 1/2" (44.3 x 44.4 cm); sheet: 18
9/16 x 18 9/16" (47.1 x 47.2 cm)
Edition: proof outside the edition of 10.
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Accessioned object
495.1969.a-c
P&S
Jo Baer, American, born 1929
Primary Light Group: Red, Green, Blue
1964-65
Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, three panels
Each panel 60 x 60" (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Philip Johnson Fund
Accessioned object
135.2016
A&D
Lina Bo Bardi, Brazilian, born Italy. 1914–1992
Poltrona Bowl chair
1951
Steel and fabric
21 5/8 × 33 1/16 × 33 1/16" (55 × 84 × 84 cm)
Committee on Architecture and Design Funds
Accessioned object
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691.2006
P&S
Lynda Benglis, American, born 1941
Embryo II
1967
Purified and pigmented beeswax, damar resin, and gesso on
masonite
36 1/8 x 6 x 5 1/8" (91.8 x 15.2 x 13 cm)
Gift of Agnes Gund
Accessioned object
398.1963
P&S
Lee Bontecou, American, born 1931
Untitled
1961
Welded steel, canvas, black fabric, rawhide, copper wire, and
soot
6' 8 1/4" x 7' 5" x 34 3/4" (203.6 x 226 x 88 cm)
Kay Sage Tanguy Fund
Accessioned object
1267.2016
DRAW
Louise Bourgeois, American, born France. 1911–2010
Self-Portrait as Bird
1945
Oil and ink on cut board with rivets
13 3/16 × 13 3/16" (33.5 × 33.5 cm)
Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Kathleen S. Curry
Accessioned object
1047.1969
P&S
Louise Bourgeois, American, born France. 1911–2010
The Quartered One
1964-65
Bronze
58 3/4 x 28 3/8 x 21 3/8" (149 x 72 x 54.1 cm)
(cast 1969)..
Gift of Henriette Bonnotte in memory of Georges Bonnotte
Accessioned object
LN2017.227
CD-CON
Feliza Bursztyn, Colombian, 1933–1982
Untitled (from the series Histéricas)
c. 1967
Stainless steel and electric engine
17 11/16 x 15 3/4 x 19 11/16" (45 x 40 x 50 cm)
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
On Loan (Incoming)
205.2008
P&S
Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Planes in Modulated Surface 4
1957
Formica and industrial paint on wood
39 1/4 x 39 1/4" (99.7 x 99.7 cm)
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American
and Caribbean Fund in honor of Kathy Fuld
Accessioned object
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1117.2011
P&S
Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
The Inside Is the Outside
1963
Stainless steel
16 x 17 1/2 x 14 3/4" (40.6 x 44.5 x 37.5 cm)
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American
and Caribbean Fund in honor of Adriana Cisneros de Griffin
Accessioned object
SC1951.5
PHOT
Carlotta Corpron, American, 1901–1987
Fluid Light Design, Fluid Rhythm
c. 1950
Gelatin silver print
13 1/4 × 10 5/8" (33.7 × 27 cm)
Gift of the artist
Study Collection
1087.2015
A&D
Lucienne Day, British, 1917–2010
Causeway
1967
Screen-printed cotton crepe
117 3/4 × 48 1/4" (299.1 × 122.6 cm)
Gift of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III
Accessioned object
120.1961
DRAW
Elaine de Kooning, American, 1920–1989
Bullfight
1960
Acrylic on paper
19 1/4 x 24 5/8" (49 x 62.5 cm)
Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund
Accessioned object
190.1994
PHOT
Jay DeFeo, American, 1929–1989
Blossom
1958
Collage of photomechanical reproductions
43 1/8 x 33 7/8" (109.5 x 86 cm)
The Fellows of Photography Fund and The Family of Man Fund
Accessioned object
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544.2010.a-f
P&S
Dorothy Dehner, American, 1901–1994
Encounter
1969
Bronze, six parts
Each 50 x 7 x 7" (127 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm), 40 x 6 x 6" (101.6 x 15.2 x
15.2 cm), 39 x 5 x 5" (99.1 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm), 38 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2"
(96.5 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm), 27 1/2 x 5 x 4 1/2" (69.9 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm),
and 14 1/2 x 5 x 4" (36.8 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm)
Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds and partial gift of
the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts
Accessioned object
189.1956
P&S
Helen Frankenthaler, American, 1928–2011
Trojan Gates
1955
Oil and enamel on canvas
6' x 48 7/8" (182.9 x 124.1 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil
Accessioned object
PG812.2016
P&S
María Freire, Uruguayan, 1917–2015
Untitled
1954
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 × 48 1/16" (92 × 122 cm)
Promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin
American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Promised Gift
223.1967
P&IB
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Venezuelan, born Germany.