Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Shahn, Ben |
Title |
Mask |
Date |
1958 |
Medium |
Gouache on paper |
Dimensions |
H-25.75 W-19 inches |
Accession Number |
70.102 |
Department |
PAINTINGS |
Description |
Gouache painting depicting an asymmetrical mask of a human face with abstracted features. The mask shape is black with the eyes, nose and lips rendered in white with expressive organic and geometricfacial facial markings rendered in bright blue, yelow, yellow ochre, medium red, and red-brown. Set againt white ground of support paper. |
Credit line |
Dr. Milton M. Gardner |
Search Terms |
1950s 1958 20th Century American Abstract Asymetrical Gouache Human Face Mask Paper Pushing Boundaries |