Untitled, 1969
Galvanized iron and plexiglass
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a world class institution and well worth the trip to Buffalo. Since its founding in 1862 as the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the gallery has been committed to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting current artists. A friendly docent was eager to fill us in on AK lore: the story went that a freshly purchased Willem De Kooning painting had the whole building smelling of linseed oil. Her point being that work in the collection is purchased close to the moment of creation, rather than when the bandwagon has left the gate. You see this wandering through the halls, old standards side along with work from this decade. The architecture echos this blend, neoclassical pillars making perfect sense adjacent to mid century hallways. If you can't make the trip, take a tour through Naomi's lens:
Clyfford Still
1951-E, 1951
Oil on canvas
Voyage, 1959
Oil on canvas
Fields of Grain as Seen from Train, 1931
Oil on Canvas
#1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG), conceived 2006, executed 2010
Graphite
Lee Krasner
Milkweed, 1955
Oil, paper, and canvas collage on canvas
Paul Cézanne
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, ca. 1878-79
Oil on canvas
Pablo Piccasso
from Nymphs and Satyrs, 1964
Glass
Joan Miro
Harlequin's Carnival, 1924-25
Oil on canvas
Robert Irwin
Untitled, 1967
Lacquer on aluminum
Gustave Courbet
La Source de la Loue, ca. 1864
Oil on canvas
Liz Larner
2001, 2001
fiberglass and steel
Clyfford Still
1945 -K,1945
Oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso
Harlequin (Project for a Monument), 1935
Oil on canvas
Paul Gauguin
The Yellow Christ, 1889
Oil on canvas
Petah Coyne
Untitled #1373 (Ms. Redstockings : Notes to Women Sculptors in One Hundred Years), 1998-2012
Mixed Media
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