Accession Number
2008/2.230

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Michael Goldberg

Object Creation Date
1986

Medium & Support
charcoal and oil on paper board

Dimensions
17.9 x 21 in. (45.56 x 53.34 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
Michael Goldberg
United States, 1924–2007
Untitled
1986
Charcoal and oil
2008/2.230

Subject matter
Goldberg was influenced by the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters like Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Willem de Kooning. The improvisational nature of jazz was also important to his work.

Physical Description
Abstract expressionist painting in pink, black, green and ivory, with squares pressed into the paint while wet to make an impression.

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
abstract

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract Expressionist
Action painting
oil painting (technique)