Chain Reaction
Catalogue
- Year
- 1947
- Medium
- Oil on canvas over board
- Dimensions
- 17 1/2 x 13 1/2" (44.5 x 34.3 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Knud Merrild
Artist
Painting
Knud Merrild was an American painter and printmaker born in Denmark who worked across abstraction and figuration during the mid-twentieth century. Active from the 1920s onward, he engaged with modernist formal vocabularies while maintaining a commitment to representational subjects drawn from landscape and still life. His practice spanned oil painting, watercolor, and printmaking techniques. Merrild's work remains understudied in English-language art historical discourse.
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- Knud Merrild
- Year
- 1947
- Medium
- Oil on canvas over board
- Dimensions
- 17 1/2 x 13 1/2" (44.5 x 34.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1947-M068725
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified