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Split Level

1958

Michael Goldberg

(American, 1924–2007)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 203.2 x 177.7 cm (80 x 69 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of B. C. Holland 1965.80
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

An Army paratrooper during the Second World War, Goldberg was wounded three times and earned a Purple Heart.

Description

Split Level belongs to the House series of paintings Goldberg created during 1957–60, in which densely robust brushwork coalesces into and around a dark rectangular form. Despite its architectural inspiration, the painting is fundamentally a record of the artist’s instinctive feelings rather than a specific image.
Vertically oriented, abstract oil painting with thick swathes of paint streaking in layers across the canvas. Frenetic, black strokes extend from the center, intermingling with dark blue, brown, yellow, and dark red. White strokes streak in from the edges with sparse strokes of dark green and orange along the upper and lower edges. Occasionally, clusters of fine drips of paint trickle down. The bare weave of the canvas shows in the upper left corner.

Split Level

1958

Michael Goldberg

(American, 1924–2007)
America

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