Harvard Art Museums > 2002.312: Study for Mural Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for Mural (Alfred Jensen) , 2002.312,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/117125. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2002.312 People Alfred Jensen, American (Guatemala City 1903 - 1981 Livingston, NJ) Title Study for Mural Other Titles Alternate Title: Study for Mural at Albany Mall Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1968 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/117125 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 173.4 x 120 cm (68 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on verso of each panel, w/ title and date label: verso: several labels preserved on verso Provenance Recorded Ownership History Estate of George Bellows. Pace Wildenstein, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Arne and Milly Glimcher, The Broad Art Foundation and Constance R. Caplan in honor of James Cuno Copyright © Estate of Alfred Jensen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 2002 Object Number 2002.312 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Thickly painted abstraction on two joined stretchers surrounded by simple wooden strip frame. Commentary Jensen is a major post-war American abstract painter whose importance was underscored most recently by a retrospective at Dia in New York. While of the abstract expressionist generation, he was much admired by minimalist and conceptualist artists (Judd, Bochner) for his dazzling, monumental, thickly painted diagrams. This work is a study for one section of “Kronos,” the 5-panel mural that he executed in 1968 for the Empire State Plaza art collection in Albany, where it still hangs--a convenient circumstance that will allow students to study the painting and then see the mural first-hand. Publication History Linda L. Cathcart and Marcia Tucker, Alfred Jensen : paintings and diagrams from the years 1957-1977, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1978), p. 64, no. 33, illustrated Alfred Jensen, Alfred Jensen: Paintings, exh. cat., Pace Gallery (New York, NY, 1991), illustrated Exhibition History Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Diagrams from the Years 1957-1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, San Diego, 07/03/1978 - 08/06/1978; University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, 07/03/1978 - 08/06/1978; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 08/18/1978 - 10/01/1978 Alfred Jensen: Where the Gods Reside. Paintings 1963-1968, Pace Gallery, 02/09/1996 - 03/09/1996 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
