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Pale Yellow

1964-65

American, born 1929

Baer's signature style of this period was to make paintings with no internal hierarchy, no ambiguity, no space, and no illusion. The large white area is balanced with the thinner black band and even thinner yellow stripe so that no one element dominates, and the traditional perception of a painting as a window onto a deeper dimension is averted.

Oil on canvas

48 1/2 x 48 in. (123.19 x 121.92 cm)

Gift of Anne Gerber

2000.165

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Elles: SAM - Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, October 06, 2012 - February 17, 2013

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