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1966 · Oil paint on board
support: 1219 x 914 mm frame: 1253 x 949 x 34 mm
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John Tunnard
1900
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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New York Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945
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John Tunnard was a British painter and printmaker who developed an abstract visual language rooted in biomorphic and geometric forms. Working primarily in oils and watercolor from the 1930s onward, his compositions evolved from naturalistic observation of landscape and organic matter into nonobjective compositions of interlocking shapes and subtle color relationships. His work emerged during the postwar period as a significant contribution to British abstraction, occupying a distinctive middle ground between geometric rigor and organic abstraction.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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New York, US
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