Still Life - Table with Vases and Cupboard
Artist
Hans Hofmann
(German, 1880 - 1966)
Date1935
Mediumoil on plywood
DimensionsImage: 57 3/8 × 43 1/8 in. (145.7 × 109.5 cm)
Support: 58 × 44 1/2 in. (147.3 × 113 cm)
Frame: 66 7/16 × 52 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (168.8 × 132.7 × 6.7 cm)
Support: 58 × 44 1/2 in. (147.3 × 113 cm)
Frame: 66 7/16 × 52 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (168.8 × 132.7 × 6.7 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Bob Nurock, 2016
Object number2016.11
DescriptionAbstract image of wooden table with vases and easel in corner; dark vibrant blue background with red, yellow, and green highlights.eMuseum Notes
Hans Hofmann was an influential teacher in both his native Germany and in the United States, where he spent the last decades of his life. His paintings, and those of his students’ (including painters Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell), had a significant impact on the post-World War II abstraction movement in American art.
Hofmann believed in the spiritual power of art, using bright color as a means of expression. In this work, strong composition and an active painted surface reveal a still life of the act of painting a still life.
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