{"data":{"id":"2369","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2369,"topgoose_id":8011,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2369,"title":"Summer Table","display_artist_text":"Brice Marden","display_date":"1972–1973","accession_number":"73.30","dimensions":"Overall: 60 1/4 × 105 3/8 in. (153 × 267.7 cm)","medium":"Oil and wax on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrice Marden, \u003cem\u003eSummer Table\u003c/em\u003e, 1972–1973. Oil and wax on canvas, overall: 60 1/4 × 105 3/8 in. (153 × 267.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts 73.30. © Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBrice Marden’s \u003ci\u003eSummer Table\u003c/i\u003e is divided into three equally sized but differently colored panels, all free of explicit representational reference and obvious brushstrokes. Marden used a spatula to smooth out the paint, creating a matte but lustrous surface. However, he also left a strip of canvas at the bottom with drips and splashes of paint, thus displaying the process that is camouflaged in the rest of the work. The evidence of process relates Marden’s work to the gesture-filled Abstract Expressionist canvases of the 1950s. \u003ci\u003eSummer Table\u003c/i\u003e, moreover, is not a “pure” abstraction. Like the work of Ellsworth Kelly, it is based on an observation—in this case, Marden’s recollection of a table he saw on the Greek island of Hydra, set out with glasses of lemonade and Coca-Cola, as well as the colors of the surrounding garden and sea. As the work progressed, the formal aspects of the panels took over, creating stronger colors with a visually tense interplay between the bright central panel and its flanks. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Three vertical panels show light blue on the left, bright yellow in the center, and dark blue on the right.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:19:08.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:12.423-05:00","images":[{"id":94010,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2369/73_30_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"833","type":"artist"}]}}}}