The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Still Life with Bicycle Wheel

Still Life with Bicycle Wheel

1935
(American, 1898–1977)
Image: 7.6 x 10.1 cm (3 x 4 in.); Paper: 7.6 x 10.1 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Location: not on view

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?
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.310