The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Window of Unknowing
1975–1976
(American, 1916–1992)
Unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Linden Trust 1983.218
© Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view
Description
Poussette-Dart was an important Abstract Expressionist painter who had a long artistic career. In this painting the extreme thickness of the paint and shifting colors appear to offer a window into a mesmerizing, abstract landscape of dots.- Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. p. 122, color repr. p. 99
- The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 26, 1984).The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
- {{cite web|title=Window of Unknowing|url=false|author=Richard Pousette-Dart|year=1975–1976|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1983.218