Black Oak for Kristen
1998 · Charcoal and pencil on paper
19 5/8 x 24 1/8" (49.8 x 61.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jake Berthot
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Contemporary Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Part II
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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New Work on Paper 1
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Jake Berthot was an American painter whose abstractions emerged from careful observation of light, color, and the materiality of paint itself. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas from the 1960s onward, his compositions balance gestural mark-making with structured compositional discipline, reflecting a sustained engagement with postwar abstraction. His work occupied a distinctive position between the expressive abstraction of the 1950s and the conceptual developments of later decades.
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