Accession Number
2008/2.226

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Charles Clough

Object Creation Date
1983

Medium & Support
enamel on paper collage

Dimensions
27 1/4 x 21 5/8 in. (69.06 x 54.93 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
1983
Enamel on collage
2008/2.226

Physical Description
Abstract expressionist painting done on a paper collage that has been cut along the edges of the brushstrokes. Some images visible under the paint: page from pornographic magazine (penis); text: “TOY GUNS”; reproductions of expressionist painting; close-up of a butterfly from National Geographic-type publication; car.

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
abstract

Additional Object Classification(s)
Mixed Media

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract Expressionist
Nature
collage (technique)
copies (derivative objects)
cutouts
found objects
reproductions