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Water Gate
196020th Century
21 1/2 in. x 21 1/2 in.
Sewell Sillman, American, (1921–1992)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
oil on masonite
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Sewell Sillman Foundation
Accession Number:
2009.11.1
Original Inventory Number P-056/122
Water Gate is a small but otherwise typical example of Sillman’s color block paintings, which constituted the bulk of his artistic output for two decades. It is in these works that Sillman’s admiration for Josef Albers’s teachings is most apparent. These paintings, though abstract, conjure images of gates, portals, and doorways, themes often suggested in their titles. Sillman, like Albers, preferred teaching with colored paper, rather than paint, to demonstrate color relationships. Not surprisingly, both men also made paintings that resembled assemblages of colored cut?outs, such as Albers’s Homage to the Square series.
Water Gate is a small but otherwise typical example of Sillman’s color block paintings, which constituted the bulk of his artistic output for two decades. It is in these works that Sillman’s admiration for Josef Albers’s teachings is most apparent. These paintings, though abstract, conjure images of gates, portals, and doorways, themes often suggested in their titles. Sillman, like Albers, preferred teaching with colored paper, rather than paint, to demonstrate color relationships. Not surprisingly, both men also made paintings that resembled assemblages of colored cut?outs, such as Albers’s Homage to the Square series.
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