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Robert Mangold

Distorted Circle within a Polygon II, 1972

Description

Maker

  • Robert Mangold, b. 1937, American

Title

Distorted Circle within a Polygon II

Year

1972

Medium

Acrylic and graphite on shaped canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • acrylic paint,
  • graphite

Supports

  • shaped canvas

Dimensions

224.2 x 203.8 cm (88 1/4 x 80 1/4 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

The Albert Pilavin Memorial Collection of 20th-Century American Art

Object Number

73.018

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Albert Pilavin Collection

Twentieth-Century American Art, II

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

I’m never sure how I got into doing the circle paintings. One story I tell, . . . Sylvia [Plimack Mangold] and I spent a summer at Al Held’s farm in Boiceville, New York. . . . I was sitting there looking at curved hills and I started doing some funny kind of landscape works that had a slightly atmospheric rectangular top and then a curved bottom. I think it may have come from that summer where I was just looking at that space in nature, but when I got back to the city I started working with a compass curve, in a sense, and did a series of paintings that were parts of circles, a half-circle broken in different ways. –Robert Mangold

Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art

February 24 - April 23, 2006

Jim Isermann

November 17, 2000 - March 4, 2001

20th-Century Art from the Albert Pilavin Collection

November 22, 1996 - April 6, 1997

From the Reserve III

July 8 - December 4, 1994

The Moderns

August 6, 1993 - March 13, 1994

The Art of this Century

February 1 - June 2, 1991

Albert Pilavin Collection

October 23 - November 25, 1973

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