Pousette-Dart, Richard. Window of Unknowing, 1975–1976. oil on canvas, Unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.). Gift of the Linden Trust, 1983.218. Copyrighted undefined.

Window of Unknowing

1975–1976

Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992)

Contemporary Art

Window of Unknowing, 1975–1976. Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992). Oil on canvas; unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Linden Trust 1983.218 © Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Poussette-Dart was an important Abstract Expressionist painter who had a long artistic career. In this painting the extreme thickness of the paint and shifting colors appear to offer a window into a mesmerizing, abstract landscape of dots.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Pousette-Dart, Richard
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: oil on canvas
Medium: oil, canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: In black paint on upper left corner of reverse of canvas: R Pousette-Dart 76
Departments: Contemporary Art
Accession Number: 1983.218
Credit Line: Gift of the Linden Trust
Exhibitions: The Year in Review for 1983, Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights Statement: Copyrighted undefined