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Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero)
Martin WongWW-1982-011509
1982·Oil on canvas·Painting+Artist frame: 42 in. × 54 1/4 in. (106.7 × 137.8 cm)
Painting (without artist frame): 35 1/2 × 47 7/8 in. (90.2 × 121.6 cm)
Edith C. Blum Fund, 1984
Catalogue
- Year
- 1982
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Painting+Artist frame: 42 in. × 54 1/4 in. (106.7 × 137.8 cm) Painting (without artist frame): 35 1/2 × 47 7/8 in. (90.2 × 121.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Martin Wong
Artist
Martin Wong
Painting
Martin Wong is an American painter known for large-scale, densely detailed canvases depicting urban facades, fire escapes, and street life in New York City. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, Wong rendered the texture and signage of tenement buildings and commercial storefronts with documentary precision and formal abstraction. His work emerged from the postwar period's engagement with vernacular architecture and the visual complexity of working-class neighborhoods.
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- Martin Wong
- Year
- 1982
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Painting+Artist frame: 42 in. × 54 1/4 in. (106.7 × 137.8 cm) Painting (without artist frame): 35 1/2 × 47 7/8 in. (90.2 × 121.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1982-011509
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
- verified