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Michael Goldberg

Artwork Details

Untitled
1986
Michael Goldberg
charcoal and oil on paper board
17 7/8 x 20 3/8 in. (45.4 x 51.75 cm);18 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (47.94 x 54.93 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
2008/2.230

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Michael Goldberg
United States, 1924–2007
Untitled
1986
Charcoal and oil
2008/2.230

Subject Matter:

Goldberg was influenced by the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters like Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Willem de Kooning. The improvisational nature of jazz was also important to his work.

Physical Description:

Abstract expressionist painting in pink, black, green and ivory, with squares pressed into the paint while wet to make an impression.

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