Color Panels for a Large Wall was created by Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) in 1978 for the Central Trust Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
It was installed at the bank until 1992, when the building was renovated and the
Executed in 1927, Line and Curve is the last in a group of four highly abstract, predominantly white, narrow vertical compositions whose imagery can be traced in part to Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in Manhattan’s modern architecture. As its title indicates, Line and Curve consists of a simple juxtaposition of a vertical line running down the center of the canvas intersected by a sweeping curve that extends through the upper right quadrant of the composition.
Norfolk, 2015-2016, no catalogue. 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank
Painted late in her career when she was experimenting with unconventional viewpoints, Sky with Flat White Cloud is the second in a series of seven paintings in which Georgia O’Keeffe took inspiration from flying in an airplane high above the earth’s surface, observing the surrounding atmosphere and cloud formations. Excited by the experience of air travel, she remarked, “I’ve often thought how wonderful it would be to simply stand out in space and have nothing!� In this painting and two others in the group, she divided the vista into three horizontal bands;
Norfolk, 2015-2016, no catalogue. 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank
At the curve, a short distance from us, a bank of emerald-green vegetation and a
Recenter Visual Description Between us and a river lined with buildings on the far bank
A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 — Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener. Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.
Recenter Visual Description A woman stands on a sun-dappled path, which runs past a bank
A bank of cream-white and some pale gray clouds fill most of the sky, breaking to
Born in Okayama, Japan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi had no intention of becoming an artist when he emigrated alone to the United States at age 16. Encouraged by a high school teacher in Los Angeles, he attended that city’s School of Art and Design for three years.
Prohibited from owning a camera or binoculars, the artist also had his bank account
Saints played a very important role in the popular piety of the late Middle Ages. They were considered to be not only patrons and protectors against all manner of ills, but also mediators between the individual worshiper and God.
loincloth, stands in a shallow body of water facing another man who kneels on the bank
Two of Magritte’s favored themes were the „window painting“ and the „painting within a painting.“ The Human Condition is one of Magritte’s earliest treatments of either subject, and in it he combines the two, making what may be his most subtle and profound statement of their shared meaning. The Human Condition displays an easel placed inside a room and in front of a window.
Exhibition History 1992 Magritte, The Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre,
