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125 Masterpieces from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Author
Evren, Robert; Kline, Katy; Kotik, Charlotta; Krane, Susan; Moore, Ethel; Nash, Steven; Raye, Helen; Wood, Emese
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
New York, New York; Buffalo, New York
Editor
Spaulding, Karen Lee
Type
Collection catalogue
Year

This collection catalogue features introductions to highlights from the Albright-Knox’s collection written by Robert Evren, Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik, Susan Krane, Ethel Moore, Steven Nash, Helen Raye, Emese Wood, and a foreword by Douglas G. Schultz. Many of these texts were adapted from the previously published collection catalogues including "Contemporary Art 1942–72: Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," "Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942," and "Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Recent Acquisitions."

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Ammi Phillips

Portrait of Lewis Northrop

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Two biomorphic forms sit side by side in the foreground of this abstract, dream-like landscape. The smaller form on the left includes a gray square with red sticks emerging from its left side. Narrow gray stalks support the blue and pink shapes that make up the taller form on the right, which casts a long shadow toward the top left corner of the painting. Nine small circular discs with white sides and blue surfaces appear scattered throughout the scene.
Yves Tanguy
Divisibilité indéfinie (Indefinite Divisibility) ,
This painting features a beige-color room full of fantastical creatures performing music and acrobatics, and floating through the air. These colorful beings are shaped like musical instruments, insects, animals, and mermaids and interact with instruments, musical notes, a ladder, dice, unicycle, a shooting star, and other objects. A window at top right looks out onto a landscape, and beneath it is a table with a fish, a globe, and papers.
Joan Miró
Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin) ,
Maisons à l'Île d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany)
Maurice Utrillo
Maisons à l'Île d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany) ,
This horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted rural scene of several old stone houses and a dirt road running between them. Tall trees rise above behind the roofs. The grey and somber light that pervades the scene overall streams from a cloudy sky in the top quarter of the canvas. In the painting’s middle ground, a human figure wearing a blue shirt and light-colored trousers raises an axe above his head in order to chop a large branch at his feet.
Alfred Sisley
Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) ,
Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash)
Giacomo Balla
Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash) ,
Angular wolves inhabit this semiabstract landscape inhabited by angular wolves. One brown, one orange, and one blue-black animal, all three crouched and on the prowl, enter from the right side of the painting. All have hollowed-out eyes. Another black wolf lies sleeping or dead at the left on the canvas. The tone of the painting is dark and brooding despite the expressive yellow sunset at the top, blue flames of a fire in the foreground, and two pink flowers at lower right.
Franz Marc
Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)] ,
Tall dark green and black rectangles rise from a diamond patterned ground at the bottom of this vertically oriented painting. The shapes are taller than they are wide and grouped together like a dense thicket of branchless tree trunks. Each is patterned with a set of irregular white dashes and other marks. Black, cloud-like shapes emerge from the upper left corner and center right edge of the soft gray background.
Max Ernst
Époque des forêts (Age of Forests) ,
L'objet invisible (Mains tenant le vide) [Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)]
Alberto Giacometti
L'objet invisible (Mains tenant le vide) [Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)] ,
Harlequin
Julio González
Harlequin ,
Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering)
Paul Klee
Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering) ,
Une laveuse au Quai d'Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou)
Honoré Daumier
Une laveuse au Quai d'Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou) ,
This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow.
Claude Monet
Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) ,
Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron)
Edgar Degas
Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron) ,
Beyond the edge of a window shutter on the right side of the painting unfolds a street scene along the Seine river. Multiple figures walk on the roads along each side of the river and over a bridge. The contours of Notre Dame Cathedral dominate the upper right quadrant. The painter suggested a hazy atmosphere by painting the scene in broad and loose brushstrokes of muted blues, purples, pinks, greens, and browns.
Henri Matisse
Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) ,
Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter)
Edouard Vuillard
Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter) ,
A large building topped by a dome held aloft by classical pillars dominates this brightly lit city scene. The building extends from the right edge of the canvas. On the left, a clear blue skills fills the area above a church with a large bell tower and a section of yellow cobblestones partially filled by a number of pedestrians.
Raoul Dufy
Le Panthéon et Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (The Pantheon and Saint-Étienne-du-Mont) ,
Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow
Piet Mondrian
Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow ,
Femme et oiseaux dans la nuit (Woman and Birds in the Night)
Joan Miró
Femme et oiseaux dans la nuit (Woman and Birds in the Night) ,

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