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Collection Online as of September 11, 2024

Filtered Yellow

Filtered Yellow

1968
(American, 1928–2017)
America, 20th century
acrylic on canvas
Unframed: 182.8 x 243.8 cm (71 15/16 x 96 in.)
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.15
© Julian Stanczak
Location: 228A Cleveland Artists

Did You Know?

After losing the use of his right arm in a Siberian labor camp during World War II, Julian Stanczak fled to a Polish refugee camp in Uganda where he learned how to paint and write left-handed.

Description

For more than a half century, Julian Stanczak maintained a distinguished career as an abstract painter interested in how vision works. Filtered Yellow features hundreds of alternating reddish and greenish razor-sharp vertical bands that create the illusion of a yellow shape, despite the absence of pure yellow paint. As typical of his work, it emphasizes a high level of technical mastery rivaled by few.
  • 1969
    Purchased from Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY.
    1969–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned: p. 4 archive.org
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  • Cleveland Museum of Art, (04//11/2011 - 02/26/2012); "Op Art"
    Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 26, 1984).
    The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).
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  • {{cite web|title=Filtered Yellow|url=false|author=Julian Stanczak|year=1968|access-date=11 September 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1969.15