About this artwork
Christopher Wool’s paintings explore the points of intersection between signage and language, pattern and decoration. Born in Boston and raised in Chicago, Wool moved to New York in the 1970s and aligned himself with a group of artists, filmmakers, and musicians associated with the punk rock movement. In the mid-1980s, he began to use printmaking techniques— including patterned paint rollers, rubber stamps, stencils, and silkscreens—to create enamel on metal works, often featuring filigree or floral motifs. The monochromatic black-and-white Type B, one of the artist’s earliest paintings to use printmaking methods, ironically recalls the action paintings of Jackson Pollock.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Christopher Wool
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Title
- Type B
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1986
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Medium
- Enamel on aluminum
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Dimensions
- 182.9 × 121.9 cm (72 × 48 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Kathleen and Roland Augustine
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Reference Number
- 2000.517
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