Untitled

Accession Number
2008/2.224

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Charles Clough

Object Creation Date
1982

Medium & Support
enamel on board

Dimensions
14.9 x 20 1/16 in. (37.94 x 50.96 cm)

Credit Line
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Label copy
Charles Clough
United States, born 1951
Untitled
1951–97
Enamel on board
2008/2.224

Physical Description
High-gloss abstract expressionist painting in muted palette (dusty blue and green, gray, etc.). Pencil marks in left corner. Year (1982) signed in bottom right corner. Clough’s unique way of applying paint to the canvas results in a highly articulated and densely textured surface. “In place of the brush and other typical painter's tools, Clough uses an instrument he calls the ‘Big Finger,’ a large balloon-like contraption that he invented to spread poured house enamel on masonite into broad gestural constellations.” (Max Henry, “charles clough,” http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/henry/henry2-5-99.asp)

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
abstract

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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