Kenneth Josephson

Fire Escape, Chicago, March 1959
1959

A monochromatic abstract artwork featuring a complex pattern of overlapping vertical and horizontal lines creating a sense of depth and movement, with a central dark vertical band that draws the eye.

A monochromatic abstract artwork featuring a complex pattern of overlapping vertical and horizontal lines creating a sense of depth and movement, with a central dark vertical band that draws the eye.

Not on view

Date
1959

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 5/16 × 5in. (33.8 × 12.7 cm) Image: 12 7/8 × 4 1/2in. (32.7 × 11.4 cm)

Accession number
2000.231

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/12859

Exhibitions

Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective

Feb 21–May 26, 2001

Kenneth Josephson
18 works in the collection

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