Ponte Vecchio

c. 1950

Oil on hardboard

39.7 × 52.4 cm (15.6 × 20.6 in)

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Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

The title of this painting references a famous Renaissance-era bridge in Florence, Italy. In the use of softly colored geometric shapes Morgan drew from the methods of analytic cubism established by Picasso and Braque. Also discernable in this quasi-abstraction are polychromatic merchants' stalls and rectangular windows, which help to bring the monument into focus.

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