Geometric Forms and Abstract Images: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Oct 9 – Nov 27, 1994
Examples of Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge painting, Color Field painting, and Minimalism demonstrated the importance of abstraction in American art from the 1950s through the early 1970s and were grouped according to three basic aesthetic categories: gesture, luminosity, and structure.
Among the works on view were early paintings such as Study for Homage to a Square (1954) by Josef Albers, Grey (1951) by Sam Francis, Buttress (1956) and Alva (1958) by Franz Kline, Untitled A (1959-60) and Alpha Epsilon (1960) by Morris Louis, Number 1, 1949 (1949) by Jackson Pollock, No. 46 (1957) and No. 61 (Rust and Blue) (1953) by Mark Rothko, and later paintings and sculptures including 36-85-1 (1985) by Larry Bell, White Light Painting, Grid Series (1970) by Mary Corse, Untitled (Meter Box) (1975) by Donald Judd, and Two Panels: Yellow with Large Blue (1970) by Ellsworth Kelly.
Geometric Forms and Abstract Images: Selections from the Permanent Collection was organized by Colette Dartnall, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.