The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Untitled
2022
(American, b. 1941)
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Image: 71.4 x 74 cm (28 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The Phrygian cap is widely depicted in antiquities, including in the CMA’s Roman bronze Barbarian, 1–100 CE (1987.64).Description
The abstract image in Untitled evokes the Phrygian cap, a symbol of liberty disseminated during the French Revolution, which is ubiquitous in Martin Puryear’s oeuvre. Puryear has created iterations of the Phrygian cap’s form in sculpture, drawings, and prints since the early 2000s. In this work, it simultaneously evokes an animal and the natural world, which are also enduring interests for the artist.- 2022–23Studio in a School, New York, NY, given by Agnes Gund to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHSeptember 11, 2023–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Martin Puryear: Nexus, edited by Emily Liebert. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 117, cat.no. 67
- {{cite web|title=Untitled|url=false|author=Martin Puryear, Universal Limited Fine Arts, Studio in a School|year=2022|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.150