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Object Details
- Artist
- Chris Martin, born Washington, DC 1956
- Gallery Label
- Chris Martin's abstract paintings are inspired by the outside world as well as his own internal landscape of memories and experience. He incorporates references to music, literature, personal relationships, and the rivers and mountains of upstate New York. Untitled pulsates with vitality and the life force of nature. An electric-pink amoebic form stretches across the canvas, containing black-and-white circles suggestive of spores or cells. White, tentacle-like lines extend outward, creating a visual energy field that moves outside the picture plane.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. James M. and Mrs. Nicola S. Grant, and the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
- 2008
- Object number
- 2020.20.202
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil and spraypaint on canvas
- Dimensions
- unframed: 37 1/4 × 29 1/4 in. (94.6 × 74.3 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Record ID
- saam_2020.20.202
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk78ff594a8-46f8-49ef-8f60-dfa1d795c6ee
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