The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Window of Unknowing

1975–1976

Richard Pousette-Dart

(American, 1916–1992)
America
oil on canvas
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.
  • Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 72, no. 102; Reproduced: p. 57 www.jstor.org
    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=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1983.218