Jay DeFeo

Untitled
c.1956–1965

A textured painting featuring a thick, impasto-style blob of paint in the center with streaks of white, gray, and black on a cracked white background, all contained within a simple wooden frame. The artwork has a signature in the bottom right corner.

A textured painting featuring a thick, impasto-style blob of paint in the center with streaks of white, gray, and black on a cracked white background, all contained within a simple wooden frame. The artwork has a signature in the bottom right corner.

Not on view

Date
c.1956–1965

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on plywood, with wood frame

Dimensions
Overall: 8 3/8 × 7 3/4 × 1/4in. (21.3 × 19.7 × 0.6 cm) Overall (wood): 8 × 7 7/16in. (20.3 × 18.9 cm)

Accession number
2011.146a-b

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jock Reynolds and Suzanne Hellmuth in honor of Gurdon and Lily Woods

Rights and reproductions
© The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/35521

Exhibitions

Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective

Feb 28–June 2, 2013

Jay DeFeo
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