Untitled (Figure Study) 19
<p>Mercedes Matter, <em>Untitled (Figure Study) 19</em>, 1966–1968. Charcoal on paper, sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 in. (25.7 × 35.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Maureen Dougherty in honor of Mark and Marisa Borghi 2022.263</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 in. (25.7 × 35.6 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Mercedes Matter
Artist
Painting
Mercedes Matter was an American abstract painter and educator whose gestural, color-inflected abstractions emerged during the postwar New York School period. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she developed a distinctive approach to non-representational form that emphasized painterly surface and chromatic intensity. Matter founded the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in 1964, where she taught until her death and shaped a generation of figurative and abstractionist practitioners. Her practice remained grounded in direct observation and material exploration rather than purely theoretical abstraction.
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- Mercedes Matter
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 in. (25.7 × 35.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-167976
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified