Untitled
<p>William Baziotes, <em>Untitled</em>, c. 1962. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Saralee and Robert Fine 2017.42. © Estate of William Baziotes</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1962
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- William Baziotes
Artist
Painting
William Baziotes was an American abstract painter whose biomorphic forms emerged from automatic drawing and a sustained engagement with Surrealist psychology. Working primarily in oil on canvas from the 1940s until his death in 1963, he developed a vocabulary of floating, organic shapes that suggest marine life and primordial landscapes without representing them directly. His practice bridged the gestural abstraction of the New York School with a dreamlike, introspective sensibility rooted in chance and the unconscious. Baziotes' soft, translucent color fields and ambiguous figural elements established him as a distinctive voice in postwar American abstraction.
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- William Baziotes
- Year
- 1962
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1962-174886
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified