Untitled
David Prentice
American, 1943–2024
1967
A large, five-part painting made with synthetic polymer paint on canvas in which the artist arranges nearly identical pale panels to slow the viewer’s eye and test how minimal shifts in tone and proportion change perception.
At first it reads as a single pale field, but thin vertical seams reveal five separate panels whose whisper‑thin variations of off‑white, cream, and faint warm tints emerge the longer you look, making surface and light feel almost alive.
Made in 1967, it belongs to Minimalist and post‑painterly currents that traded gesture for seriality and industrial materials, demonstrating how extreme reduction can heighten awareness of color, scale, and the act of seeing.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, in five parts
Dimensions
6' x 10' 1/2" (182.9 x 306 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Charles Cowles
Accession
532.1971.a-e
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