Still Life, Window
Knox Martin
American, born 1923
1987
In synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper, Knox Martin compresses a still life into a carnival of shapes and patterns, using bright color and jagged mark-making to turn ordinary objects into a dynamic, pictorial game.
You’re struck by a flattened, decorative field—serpentine yellow forms studded with red triangles, pastel bands and staccato red marks—whose lively brushwork, scribbled pencil lines and the artist’s scrawled signature make the surface feel immediate and improvised.
Martin fuses the bravura color and scale of postwar New York painting with the intimacy of drawing, helping to blur the lines between painting, drawing and muralism and pointing toward a more graphic, pattern-driven direction in contemporary still life.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper
Dimensions
13 5/8 x 12 1/4" (34.6 x 31.1 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
2341.2005
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