On View
Not on viewObject number2009.44
Untitled
Artist
Conrad Marca-Relli
(American, 1913-2000)
Daten.d.
Mediumsilkscreen
Dimensionsimage: 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextConrad Marca-Relli’s prior experience with collage can be discerned in this lithograph’s arrangement of sharp-edged white and black shapes, which seem cut and pieced together to make rough circles. During a visit to Mexico, Marca-Relli had found that with collaged swatches of canvas, he could define the contours of sun-bathed adobe architecture, though the color was nearly white on white. Back in New York, his minimalist use of color and abstract forms placed him at the center of the emerging Abstract Expressionist movement.
