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Label Text Painted in 1961, the work is a vigorous fusion of the technique of abstract expressionism, with the sharply defined forms of current hard-edge painting. Source: Bulletin, February 1964.
Exhibition History"Commitment, Community and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections," Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 24 - May 10, 1998

"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo, Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; (circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)

"Man in the City," Ottumwa Heights College, IA, Mar. 30 - Apr. 7, 1968

"Art in Iowa from Private Collections," Des Moines Art Center, Oct. 19 - Nov. 24, 1963
Published ReferencesDMAC Bulletin, Feb. 1964, ill.

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.139 & 140, b/w ill. pl.79, p.139

"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, 1983, exh. cat. no.21

"Art in Iowa from Private Collections," Des Moines Art Center, 1963, exh. cat. no.29
DimensionsOverall: 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.9 cm)
Accession Number 1963.13
Classificationspainting
Small Iron Picture
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1958
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Leslie
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Henry Maurer
1928
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1961-1962
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Walter Wellington Quirt
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Gardner George Symons
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ralph Albert Blakelock
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Roy Lichtenstein
1969