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February Fourteenth

Charles Clough

Artwork Details

February Fourteenth
1986-1989
Charles Clough
enamel on board
21 3/4 x 26 1/4 x 7/8 in. (55.25 x 66.68 x 2.22 cm)
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.227

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Charles Clough
United States, born 1951
February Fourteenth
1986–89
Enamel on board
2008/2.227

Physical Description:

Enamel abstract expressionist painting in traditional Valentine’s Day colors: white, orange, red, magenta, salmon.
“In place of the brush and other typical painter's tools, Clough uses an instrument he calls the ‘Big Finger,’ a large balloon-like contraption that he invented to spread poured house enamel on masonite into broad gestural constellations.” (Max Henry, “charles clough,” http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/henry/henry2-5-99.asp)

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