Alan Shields

Singer for a Slave
1979

A colorful abstract painting featuring a grid of squares with various shades of blue, green, yellow, red, and black. The texture appears thick and layered, and the edges of the canvas are frayed, revealing the material beneath the paint.

A colorful abstract painting featuring a grid of squares with various shades of blue, green, yellow, red, and black. The texture appears thick and layered, and the edges of the canvas are frayed, revealing the material beneath the paint.

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Date
1979

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor on string-grid on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 20 3/4 × 21 1/2in. (52.7 × 54.6 cm)

Accession number
80.3a-b

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Alan Shields
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