David Driskell

Festival Bahia

1985

Abstract painting with vertical pink stripes and colorful curved brushstrokes scattered across the canvas.
Abstract painting with vertical pink stripes and colorful curved brushstrokes scattered across the canvas.

David Driskell, Festival Bahia, 1985. Opaque watercolor and acrylic on paper, sheet (sight): 22 1/2 × 30 in. (57.2 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing and Print Committee and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund 2025.52

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Date
1985

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor and acrylic on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 22 1/2 × 30 in. (57.2 × 76.2 cm)

Accession number
2025.52

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Drawing and Print Committee and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/68723




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