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Robert Mangold

Distorted Circle within a Polygon II

Maker

Robert Mangold (American, b. 1937)

Title

Distorted Circle within a Polygon II

Year

1972

Medium

  • Acrylic and graphite on shaped canvas

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Acrylic and graphite on shaped canvas

Materials

acrylic paint, graphite

Supports

  • shaped canvas

Dimensions

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

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

Object Number

73.018

Type

  • Paintings

Publications

  • Books

The Albert Pilavin Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art, II

CIRC copy gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr. ; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Caroll Silver

Articles

Framing Art and the Art of the Frame

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

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
Feb 24, 2006 – Apr 23, 2006
Jim Isermann
Logic Rules
Nov 17, 2000 – Mar 04, 2001
20th-Century Art from the Albert Pilavin Collection
Nov 22, 1996 – Apr 06, 1997
From the Reserve III
Cubist Painting
Jul 08, 1994 – Dec 04, 1994
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Robert Mangold (American, b. 1937)
Distorted Circle within a Polygon II, 1972
Acrylic and graphite on shaped canvas
224.2 x 203.8 cm (88 1/4 x 80 1/4 inches)
The Albert Pilavin Memorial Collection of 20th-Century American Art 73.018

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