In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Vieira da Silva, who was born in Portugal but spent most of her career in Paris, liked to listen to music as she painted. This abstract interior scene invites comparisons to the rhythmic nature of music. The painted perspectival walls enclose various colorful forms that could be read as furnishings—chairs, rugs, floor lamps—and which are overlaid with multicolor horizontal lines. These lines contradict the depiction of a three-dimensional room by flattening space, creating a densely woven composition that plays with mark making and perspective.
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Wols — Boats
Charles Demuth — Bermuda, Masts and Foliage
Wols — City River
Alexis Gritchenko — Fishing Village
Max Beckmann — Bridge and Wharf
Charles Demuth — Bermuda Landscape No. 2
Charles Demuth — Bermuda: Tree
John Atherton — Rocks and Weeds
Randall Morgan — Ponte Vecchio
Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918) — Avions reposant s
Gustave Doré — Wolk waarin figuren zweven
Charles Demuth — Masts