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Robert Arthur Goodnough
Abstract No. 4 "Pipes"1956

Not on view
Large abstract painting, black gestural brushwork on off-white canvas, dense overlapping strokes with stick-figure pictographs, circular wheel forms, and paint drips
Artist or Maker
Robert Arthur Goodnough
United States, New York, Cortland, 1917-2010
Title
Abstract No. 4 "Pipes"
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1956
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
44 5/16 x 46 in. (112.4 x 116.84 cm)
Credit Line
Gift from the Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection
Accession Number
M.86.367.3
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Blankfort, Michael; Edgerton, Anne Carnegie and MauriceTuchman. The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
  • Meyer, James. Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.