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Yellow Horse
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Yellow Horse

Dateca. 1942-43
Maker Carl Robert Holty American, 1900-1973
Label TextBorn in Germany, Carl Holty studied in the U.S. and then in Paris, where he met Robert Delaunay and became a member of Abstraction-Création, the French association of abstract artists. He returned to New York in 1935, renewed his contacts with the artist community-including his former teacher Hans Hofmann and Stuart Davis-and became the chairman of the American Abstract Artists group which had formed to protest "Social Realism." In a statement about his approach to abstraction, Holty once observed: "In breaking up the shapes or forms, it is imperative not to attempt to rejoin them because that leads to transformation only. By breaking them and keeping them broken, the forms, large and small, are simply densities in the rhythmic movement of color and shapes."
Object number87.26
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: Smashing Forms and Mark Tobey and Friends", November 16, 2002 - April 6, 2003 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Mark Tobey
Dimensions54 x 40 in. (137.2 x 101.6 cm)
MediumOil on board
Rising Forms
Carl Robert Holty
1942
Object number: 56.60
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Carl Robert Holty
1929
Object number: 87.27
Industrial Village
Carl A. Morris
ca. 1939
Object number: 40.57
Still Life with Skull
Carl A. Morris
ca. 1940
Object number: 41.40
Composition No.11
Carl A. Morris
ca. 1943
Object number: 43.23
Woman with Cloth
Carl A. Morris
ca. 1939
Object number: 39.43
Rehearsal
Carl A. Morris
1945
Object number: 45.88
Out of the Coulee
Carl A. Morris
1946
Object number: 46.204
Photo: Scott Leen
Clayton Sumner Price
ca. 1948
Object number: 65.171
Photo: Scott Leen
Clayton Sumner Price
ca. 1930
Object number: 51.98
Robert S. Alexander
1965
Object number: 66.111