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Ed Moses
Rose Screen1963

Not on view
Four-panel folding screen with pale gray frames, each panel decorated with a continuous pattern of rough dark charcoal and brown organic clusters against a honey-tan ground
Four-panel folding screen with pale gray lacquered frames, featuring a dense abstract composition of dark charcoal brushwork over a gold ground, with scattered white irregular shapes across all panels forming a continuous design.
Drawing on cream paper with dense, vertical hatching in dark graphite forming irregular masses, interspersed with white negative-space silhouettes of maple leaves outlined in thin ink lines.
Print or drawing with dense, vertical dark brushstrokes or hatching on cream paper, surrounding a loosely outlined form resembling a tortoise or rocky mass at center.
Drawing on tan paper, five leaf-shaped outlines in white against a pale ground, with dense hatched charcoal or graphite shading forming a rectangular mass at lower left and a diagonal streak extending to upper right.
Drawing or print on cream paper, dense diagonal hatching in black and dark gray fills most of the composition, with scattered white outlined leaf or star-shaped forms breaking through the crosshatched surface
Tall vertical composition in cream and dark gray-green, with dense hatched mark-making forming a cloud-like mass across the upper two-thirds, scattered with irregular white burst shapes suggesting blossoms or petals dispersing into the pale ground below.
Tall vertical composition in dark olive-green and cream, dense grid of short brushstrokes interrupted by irregular white and pale floral forms scattered across the surface.
Woodblock print with dense vertical hatching in dark brown-black ink, scattered with irregular white and pale shapes suggesting falling snow or blossoms against a textured ground.
Tall vertical painting with dense, dark hatched brushstrokes forming an irregular mass against a warm beige ground, scattered throughout with white leaf-shaped forms.
Charcoal or graphite drawing on cream paper; small, loosely rendered dark abstract form with irregular lobed edges, centered on the sheet, with a lightly outlined shape and handwritten initials and date "67" below.

Ed Moses, Rose Screen, 1963, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ed Moses
United States, California, Long Beach, 1926–2018, active Los Angeles
Title
Rose Screen
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1963
Medium
Graphite with painted wood frame and silver strip borders with panels connected by metal hinges
Dimensions
A-d) image: 47 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (120.6 x 49.5 cm) each panel: 60 x 21 1/2 in. (152.4 x 54.6 cm) each
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.85.127
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Blum, Irving. Ferus. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002.
  • Jones, Leslie. Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 70s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

Copyright
© Ed Moses

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