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2018 · Earthenware with glaze
Overall: 32 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 3/4 in. (82.6 × 34.3 × 1.9 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Mary Heilmann
American, 1940
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11
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19
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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Mary Heilmann is an American painter working in abstraction since the 1970s, known for her gestural use of color and informal compositional strategies that reference both modernist painting and vernacular sources. Her work combines expressive brushwork with a material sensibility rooted in post-war abstraction, often drawing on everyday imagery and the visual language of domestic and natural spaces. Heilmann's paintings resist the rhetoric of systematic abstraction in favor of a more intuitive and personal approach to color relationships and mark-making.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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