Lassaw Composition in Steel

Hammered steel, 18 1/2" high

Baziotes’s Blue Mirror (1948), an oil painting in the biomorphic art collection, with its archived photograph and dimensions.

Brooks’s No. 27 (1950), an oil painting from the biomorphic art archive, with a photograph and related modern works.

Carles’s Composition III (1931–32), illustrated in the biomorphic art collection with its medium and dimensions.

Gorky’s Agony (1947), an oil painting in the biomorphic art archive, with an artwork photograph and related works.

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Charles and Ray Eames designed La Chaise for MoMA’s 1948 furniture competition, drawing on Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure sculpture.

The same principles of construction used in the Torneraj apply to the Drum, showing again that almost any form can now be made to behave as a chair.

Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau brings steel, glass, concrete, color and workshop-made furnishings into a modern school.

Man Ray: The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows