The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Blue Rational/Irrational (left panel)
1969
(American, 1935–2005)
Gift of the KeyBank Collection 2019.58.a
© The Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Location: 224A Contemporary Corridor
Did You Know?
This was included in Al Loving: Paintings (1969) at the Whitney Museum, the museum’s first solo exhibition of work by an African American artist.Description
Across both canvases of this large-scale diptych, Loving evokes a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface through strategic layerings of cubic forms and carefully calibrated color juxtapositions. Around the time Loving made this work he wrote, “I am tired of objects on walls. The wall must be pierced, brought forward, pushed back.” Blue Rational/Irrational is a bold manifestation of this sentiment.- 1969-?Collection of the artistearly 1990s-2019(KeyBank Collection, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2019-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).Alvin Loving: Paintings. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (December 19, 1969–January 25, 1970).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.58.a