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Knud Merrild
Flux Lepidoptera1944

Not on view
Abstract painting with a large teal and black amoeba-like form on a sandy tan ground, containing swirling, spiral, and organic shapes in yellow, white, orange, and gray
Artist or Maker
Knud Merrild
Title
Flux Lepidoptera
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1944
Medium
Oil on masonite
Dimensions
14 x 18 1/2 in. (35.56 x 46.99 cm) Frame: 20 × 24 1/2 × 1 in. (50.8 × 62.23 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Stone
Accession Number
M.69.90.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Wechsler, Jeffrey. Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions: An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965. New Brunswick, N.J.: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, 1989.