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Cousin du Diable
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise. 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stenciled black text in all capital letters on black background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on black background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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The Underworld
This print shows a chaotic scene with a white skeleton in the center. In the upper left, there are a series of sea creatures, including a grey colored shark, pink colored squids and two octopuses in shades of orange. At the bottom of the print, the skeleton is surrounded by a large lizard, skulls, and other figures. A moon and stars are in the upper left corner. The print is signed (l.r.) "Underground Ann McCoy" and numbered "18/100" in red pencil.
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Underworld
This hand colored lithograph shows a chaotic scene with three, masked figures at the lower left surrounded by a variety of sea creatures: squids, octopusus, sharks and turtles. 
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Black Magic / Continuation of Mynona's Gray Magic (Schwarze Magie / Fortsetzung von Mynonas grauer Magie)
A heavily inked, multi-layered multi-media image with tinges of color. On the left hand side of image, an older gentleman in turban and beard can be made out. The background is dark inks and washes, bleeding into man's figure. Bottom edge of paper carries inscriptions from Kubin (handwriting matches other samples).
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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Wherefore War
Grey, black and white in color. There is a large black creature (snake-like) in the center. Below is dark (water or underground), and there are hundreds of skulls floating. In the grey areas (possibly land?), there are hundreds of soldiers wearing black, in formation.
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Sandblaster
Manual laborer with protective headgear working below ground.
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Sounds of Dawn

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Night Sounds

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Day and Night

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A Black and White Rainbow
This vertically oriented print has a black background and an uneven gray line down the center.
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Black Quartered Arc

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Square

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Untitled, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"

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Third Street Bridge, Los Angeles
Black and white image of powerlines and two lit streetlights at night. 
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Dead Center (State I)
A black background dotted with white spots that resembles a night sky. Just left of center is a light shape like a comet streaking from the bottom towards the top of the image. The comet shape resembled a figure with its arms crossed in front of it.
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Soldatengrab zwischen den Linien (Soldier's Grave between the Lines), from "Der Krieg"

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The Flood
In an ominous landscape a crowd of nude men, women and children, their bodies silhouetted against the descending gloom, struggle frantically to escape rising floodwaters. The figures gesture wildly and strenuously twist their long athletic bodies into a seemingly infinite variety of contortions as they clamber up the last hilltops and trees. A city stands on a hill and appears through the trees in the background.
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Black Egg, Nov. 18
Two dark circles in top right and bottom left corners of the image.
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Black Palm
black dyed wood vase with exggerated texture fibers
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Black Flag

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Black, White Gray

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The Black Tree + Mountain
This photograph depicts a hilly landscape enveloped in fog and low-lying clouds. In the foreground stands a black leafless tree.
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Untitled, (Volcanic Crater, Death Valley)
A black and white photo of bushes growing in a volcanic crater.
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Smoke Rings
Square black and white photograph depicting three smoke rings that float in the air against a black backdrop. The rings appear in a diagonal pattern, one in the lower left corner, one in the center and one in the upper right corner. The ring in the lower left hand corner appears to be more complete, while the other two are more abstract.
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Turkish Mambo: from 'Black Series II'

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Pas de Deux - Black Dancer (A two-part piece)
First part of the hand built ceramic black color figure of a dancer.
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Marriage of Reason and Squalor
This print shows a black horizontal rectangle in the lower left portion of an off-white background. The rectangle is divided in half and each side has a pattern of stripes that create the appearance of inverted u-shaped forms stacked one on top of the other. <br />
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Copyright
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Square

Accession Number
1988/2.4.44

Title
Square

Artist(s)
Mac Wells

Object Creation Date
1987

Medium & Support
lithograph on paper

Dimensions
12 11/16 x 9 13/16 in. (32.2 x 24.8 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of American Abstract Artists

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
black and white print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
abstraction
modern and contemporary art
squares

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