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Composition with Guitar

A work made of collage composed of acrylic paint, gouache, oil paint, and watercolor on cut-out sandpaper, black, brown, and cream wove paper, and corregated board, laid down on silver wove paper, laid down on board.

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  • A work made of collage composed of acrylic paint, gouache, oil paint, and watercolor on cut-out sandpaper, black, brown, and cream wove paper, and corregated board, laid down on silver wove paper, laid down on board.

Date:

c. 1937

Artist:

Albert Eugene Gallatin
American, 1881-1952

About this artwork

Heir to a large banking fortune, Albert Eugene Gallatin started collecting art at the age of 17, forming an important collection of American and European modernist art following World War I. He began to paint in 1926, studying in Paris and paying frequent visits to the studios of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. The present collage suggests the strong influence of their brand of Synthetic Cubism. Gallatin’s collection was given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1943.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Albert Eugene Gallatin

Title

Composition with Guitar

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1937–1962

Medium

Collage composed of acrylic paint, gouache, oil paint, and watercolor on cut-out sandpaper, black, brown, and cream wove paper, and corregated board, laid down on silver wove paper, laid down on board

Dimensions

46.9 × 36.5 cm (18 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. W. Floyd Nichols and Mrs. B. Langdon Tyler

Reference Number

1954.265

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