Interior by the Sea
1963 · Lithograph in ochre, blue, and black on white wove paper
Sheet: 69.2 × 58.4 cm (27 1/4 × 23 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Fannie Hillsmith
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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Modern Handmade Jewelry
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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Fannie Hillsmith was an American painter and printmaker whose landscapes and still lifes integrated modernist formal principles with close observation of natural forms. Working in oil and watercolor across seven decades, from the 1930s through the early 2000s, she developed a distinctive visual vocabulary that remained disciplined in its restraint and attention to material specificity. Her practice demonstrates a sustained commitment to the study of light, color relationships, and the structural logic underlying organic form.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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