"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
"By the turn of the 1950s Rothko had arrived at the pictorial format which was to serve him for the rest of his career; horizontal lozenges of soft-edged color hovering in a large vertically oriented field. These clouds of color were seen by...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
"Judd's industrially manufactured, modular pieces, developed from 1966 onwards, were stubbornly empirical investigations of specific materials and visual effects. He shunned mystification and openly declared the nature of his structures. The...
"In her consistent use of grids Agnes Martin participated in a tradition in twentieth-century art stretching from the Cubists and Mondrian to her Minimalist contemporaries. The grid was a non-hierarchical and non-referential structure. It...
"In de Kooning's black canvases the elimination of color was conditioned as much by financial constraints as by the need to simplify pictorial problems in the spirit of Analytic Cubism. The deliberately artless use of shiny enamel housepaints...
Alley running parallel to Berry Boulevard looking east toward Taylor Boulevard. Overgrown alley with wood and barbed wire fencing along the right side. Houses back up to the alley on both sides. Caption note: Whitney-Berry.
Alley running parallel to Berry Boulevard looking east toward Taylor Boulevard. Overgrown alley with wood and barbed wire fencing along the right side. Houses back up to the alley on both sides. A large puddle runs along the left side of the...
Alley running parallel to Berry Boulevard looking west toward Powell Avenue. Alley with a long narrow ditch filled with water running parallel to it. Boards serve as bridges from the backyards. Sheds and other outbuildings back up to the alley....
Alley at Berry Boulevard looking towards Berry Boulevard and Lentz Avenue. Alley lined by sheds and outbuildings. A sewer drain runs under the alley. Caption note: Whitney-Berry.
"Frank Lloyd Wright developed numerous plans for Broadacre City, a paradigm for suburban development that included modest, single-family houses such as the one pictured here. Although his planned community was never built, the low-pitched...
"Such barely recognizable human images were the outcome of a dialogue with materials. Layers of thick paste were applied to an absorbent sheet of rag paper laid on a canvas, with a layer of colored paste and varnish finally added to the...
"The sacks used in these canvases often displayed stenciled letters relating to their commercial origins. This suggests some link with the German prewar Dadaist, Kurt Schwitters who made collages from printed waste paper. However, Burri,...
Photograph first published in the New York evening newspaper PM Daily, 7 September, 1944; "The freelance newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as 'Weegee', was notorious in New York in the 1930s for being the first to arrive at...
"Carried out partly to confront the economic interests on which galleries are based, this installation took place over a three-day period. The artist chose horses of various breeds and colors, associating them symbolically with energy and...
Two exterior views of a large band in uniform with instruments on the steps in front of a building. Caption: Hamilton Citadel Band at Louisville, Ky. Oct. 9, 1948.
Members of a band sit in uniform with their instruments on a stage in front of a curtain with stars. Caption: Hamilton Citadel Band at Louisville, Ky. Oct. 9, 1948.
Bands; Students; University of Louisville. Band; University of Louisville--Students
Two members of the University of Louisville marching band pose with three women from the University of Dayton. This photograph appeared on page 71 of the 1956 U of L yearbook, the Thoroughbred, with the caption, "Notify the N.C.A.A....Dayton...
