Girl's Head
1927
George Copeland Ault
American, 1891-1948
American Art
Like many modernist portraits, this drawing displays dynamic tensions between illusionistic three-dimensionality and the flatness of the paper support, between representation and abstraction, and between individualization and idealization. George Ault reduced the forms of the head into simplified shapes, creating passages of shading that contrast starkly with the large areas of blank paper.
- Maker/Artist
- Ault, George Copeland
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 15 5/8 x 13 5/16 in. (39.7 x 33.8 cm) image: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (21 x 16.8 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 81.250.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of Maurice Vanderwoude in memory of Louise Ault
- Rights Statement
- Orphaned work
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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