The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Untitled

1969

Larry Poons

(American, 1937-)
America
acrylic on canvas
Unframed: 342.9 x 228.6 cm (135 x 90 in.)
Gift of Agnes Gund 1969.49
© Larry Poons / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Poons was a member of The Druds, a noise music band that also featured artists Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.

Description

Originally trained as a musician, Larry Poons brings a pulsing rhythm to his paintings. In this work, dynamic painterly gestures variously seep into and hover above a bold field of yellow. The abstract image is composed to keep the viewer’s eye in constant motion.
  • (Leo Castelli Gallery, New York).
    1969
    Agnes Gund, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1969–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 204 archive.org
    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. 5 archive.org
    Henning, Edward B. “A Group of Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 4 (April 1970): 107–126. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 120-121, fig. 17 www.jstor.org
    Henning, Edward B. “Reconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 8 (October 1973): 235–241. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 239-240, fig. 15 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 254 archive.org
  • The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960 - 1970. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (January 14-March 10, 1974).
    Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
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