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Moths and Insect Motifs

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Raffia Textile Panel
Rectangular panel with hemmed edges. There are two rows of patterns running down the panel consisting of multiple interlocking lines.
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Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of white paper we see four vertical rectangles with treble clef shapes in them in shades of black, white and grey.
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Element from a mosaic frieze, entrance hall of the H.O. Havemeyer House, New York (one of 10 elements)
This mosaic panel depicts flowers and tendrils against a background with both a chevron pattern and a round flower-like patten. Along either side is a tapering beige element that is half of a blade of a plant; when joined with another panel, they create a full plant blade.
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Furrows, Plate V of a suite of five

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The Student (L'Etudiante)
On a narrow, vertically oriented canvas, white surreal biomorphic forms float over a background of larger biomorphic forms in dark blues and black with some red splashes. 
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Untitled

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Spawning
This print has a brown area on the top and green on the bottom with a white section running between them as a river runs between land. The white section has thin black lines outlining the shape of fish and creating texture. Black vertical lines run top to bottom over all sections. 
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The Earth

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Letters to Earth

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Vibrations, from "Earth Projects, A Suite of 10 Prints"
This lithograph on white wove paper is horizontally oriented with a grid of light gray lines on a white background. On the left side is a contour map with green areas and blue lines. There are five small squares in a diagonal row in the center portion of the map. On the right side there are two plans. The one on the bottom is a cross section diagram of a platform (??) under ground. The one above shows a yellow rectangle with a smaller rectangle formed by dotted lines within it. There are word labels throughout this work. <br />
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Symbol of Earth (Ts'ung)

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Killer Whale and Ray Center, Nazca
This photograph depicts an aerial view of a desert with lines etched into the earth, which form geoglyhps in the shape of a killer whale and lines emanating from a center.
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Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
Seen from below, the drawing shows an illusionistic painted corner of a ceiling. A balustrade below which are architectural details including putti, swags, and acanthus leaves.
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Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
The viewer is presented with an illusionistic rendering of a corner an ornate celiing. Architectural moldings, windows, and a still life in the corner with a globe and measuring instruments suggest that this might have been intended for a library
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Callistemma brachiatum
A black and white photograph of a bell-shaped, textured structure with oval holes encircling its middle. It sits on the ground by itself.
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Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.
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Melon
Black and white photograph of a sphere with a textured surface casting a shadow toward the viewer&#39;s left.
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Furrows, Plate V of a suite of five

Accession Number
1996/2.43.5

Title
Furrows, Plate V of a suite of five

Artist(s)
Terry Winters

Object Creation Date
1989

Medium & Support
woodcut on cream wove paper printed from two woodblocks

Dimensions
26 15/16 x 21 7/16 in. (68.3 x 54.4 cm);32 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.5 x 66.2 cm);26 15/16 x 21 7/16 in. (68.3 x 54.4 cm);25 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (64.7 x 49.7 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Wendy and Jeffrey Roth

Label copy
In his portfolio of woodcuts Furrows, Winters uses ambiguous biomorphic forms that reflect the artist’s love for science and appreciation of its rich abstract possibilities. The focus of this large composition is a symmetrical, vaguely botanical form which resembles a microscopic specimen magnified many times. Its off-center placement creates tension within the design.
Winters is also interested in creating ambiguities in the relationship between figure and ground. This work was printed from two woodblocks, one bearing the carved figure. The surfaces of both blocks, when inked and printed on the paper, left the pattern of their wood grain, with the grain of one block going in the opposite direction from the grain of the other block. These intersecting patterns confuse the figure/ground relationship and create complexities in an ostensibly simple design.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
abstraction
modern and contemporary art

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