Without Title (Subway Drawing)
2011 · Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
7 1/2 × 11 1/4" (19.1 × 28.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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William Anastasi
1933–2023
WA-00025970
PaintingConceptual Art
Representation
None documented
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19
Works in Collection
37
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3
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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William Anastasi was an American artist working across drawing, printmaking, and installation whose practice emerged from postwar abstraction and conceptual inquiry. He developed a distinctive approach to mark-making that prioritized chance, perception, and the act of observation itself, often working with minimal means and repetitive gesture. His work engaged with ideas of process and contingency that anticipated later developments in systems-based and process art.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 28d ago
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Conceptual Art
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19 published of 34 catalogued · 33 with image
- MoMA15 publishedof 30 catalogued30 img
- Art Institute Chicago3 published3 img
- Whitney1 published
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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