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Still Life with Bicycle Wheel

1935

Edward W. Quigley

(American, 1898–1977)
Culture
United States
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 7.6 x 10.1 cm (3 x 4 in.); Paper: 7.6 x 10.1 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2017.310
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Edward Quigley’s abstract still lifes were radically experimental in 1930s America. Though abstracted through cropping, the bicycle is rendered whole—and therefore functional—by the shadow behind it. In its insistence on function, lyricism, and beauty, could Still Life be Quigley’s response to Marcel Duchamp’s 1913 ironic, provocative Bicycle Wheel sculpture?

Still Life with Bicycle Wheel

1935

Edward W. Quigley

(American, 1898–1977)
United States

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