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2002 · Pastel on paper
39 3/8 x 27 3/4" (100 x 70.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Robert Moskowitz
American, 1935
Brooklyn, NY, USA
PaintingMinimalism
Representation
None documented
6
Institutional Exhibitions
13
Works in Collection
24
Assets Indexed
4
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90%
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- • Minimalism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986–1987
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Some Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962–1963
About
Why this artist matters now
Robert Moskowitz was an American painter whose large-scale canvases reduced iconic subjects, the Empire State Building, a solitary tree, a ship's smokestacks, to their essential geometric silhouettes. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas from the 1970s onward, he distilled photographic source material into stark, minimalist compositions that hover between representation and abstraction. His approach emerged from postwar American painting's engagement with scale and seriality, yet his work maintained a distinctly graphic clarity and compositional restraint that set it apart from his contemporaries.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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