Paul Jenkins

Phenomena Breakwater
1962

Abstract artwork featuring fluid shapes in a blend of warm and cool tones, with a prominent dark shape stretching across the center, set against a soft, light background.
Abstract artwork featuring fluid shapes in a blend of warm and cool tones, with a prominent dark shape stretching across the center, set against a soft, light background.

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Date
1962

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 54 1/4 × 58 7/8in. (137.8 × 149.5 cm)

Accession number
63.52

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil through the friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© Paul Jenkins / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Paul Jenkins
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