Wood, steel rod, lead, 39 1/2" high
Metal and wire, painted, 54" high
Sheet aluminum, painted, 26" high
Calder Feathers sculpture
Davis For Internal Use Only
Davis For Internal Use Only
Davis’s For Internal Use Only (1945), an oil painting illustrated in the expressionist geometric art collection.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Geometric Art
Knaths Maritime
Knaths’s Maritime (1931), an oil painting in the expressionist geometric art archive, with a photograph and dimensions.
Expressionist Geometric ArtKnaths
Lassaw Milky Way
Lassaw’s The Milky Way: A Polymorphic Space (1950), illustrated in the expressionist geometric art archive with material and size notes.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Geometric Art
Smith Amusement Park sculpture
Smith’s Amusement Park (1937), a sculpture of steel with cadmium illustrated in the expressionist geometric art collection.
SculptureExpressionist Geometric Art
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Henry Hebbeln Mid Century Modern Tryon, North Carolina House
COST FACTS: $9,000 in 1949. 760 square feet at $12 per square foot. Cost includes built-in furniture.
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Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer
Named after the painter Wassily Kandinsky, for whose home at the Bauhaus it was made, the Wassily has a most complex arrangement of parts, with thin str...
ChairsFurniture
Pedro Freideberg Hand Chair
Probably the first of the new wave of surrealist chairs, this one is sold as the sculpture of Pedro Freideberg, an Italian living in Mexico.
ChairsSculpture
Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriter
Marcello Nizzoli’s 1950 Olivetti Lettera 22 combines a low enameled-metal body and compact keyboard in a typewriter designed for portable use.
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