Ogam Movement
Artist
William Lumpkins
(American, 1909 - 2000)
Date1980
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsSupport: 17 1/2 x 23 1/8 in. (44.5 x 58.7 cm)
Frame: 28 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (72.4 x 85.1 cm)
Frame: 28 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (72.4 x 85.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Norma Lumpkins, the William Lumpkins Estate and Peyton Wright Gallery, 2009
Object number2009.47
DescriptionAbstract modern painting in shades of red, pink, yellow, gray, black, blue and lime green; crisp powerful series of three, four and five concise, curvilinear brushstrokes; these appear against geometric rectangles, boxes and parallelograms; there is a harmonious effect similar to stylized representations of the ancient "Ogam/Ogham" pagan religion and runic alphabets from 4th Century AD, Ireland.On View
Not on view
