Details

Title

Abstract Composition

Artist/Maker

Albert E. Gallatin (American, 1881–1952)

Date

1940

Medium

Oil on cardboard

Dimensions

15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches

Credit

Bequest of Mr. Bim Franklin

Accession #

2008.49

On View

Currently not on view

Albert Gallatin was a key figure in the American Abstract Artists (AAA) group and part of a sub-circle of members dubbed the Park Avenue Cubists due to their wealth and social status, which allowed them to widely promote the cause of abstraction at a time when American scene painting dominated the art world. Directly inspired by the art of leading European modernists such as Picasso and Léger—whom he knew and whose work he collected—Gallatin’s dynamic “compositions” reveal his distinctive synthesis of Cubist and Constructivist ideas.

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