Cairo Passing, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints
1975 · Color screenprint on paper
Image: 66.9 × 46.3 cm (26 3/8 × 18 1/4 in.); Sheet: 72.6 × 55.9 cm (28 5/8 × 22 1/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Walter Darby Bannard
American, 1934
New Haven, United States
PrintmakingMinimalismGeometric AbstractionColor Field
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
13
Works in Collection
26
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Minimalism
- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Color Field
- • Abstract Art
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
View all exhibitions →No image
Reinstallation of the Contemporary Galleries
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
No image
Printsequence
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
No image
Art of the Real
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
No image
The Responsive Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
About
Why this artist matters now
Walter Darby Bannard was an American abstract painter and theorist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. His geometric compositions from the 1960s onward employed bold color relationships and hard-edge forms that engaged with the legacy of color field painting and minimalism. A vocal critic and advocate for abstract art, Bannard wrote extensively on aesthetic theory and the formal properties of modernist painting. His work was grounded in a rigorous investigation of color interaction and spatial illusion without representational reference.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Minimalism
Medium
Printmaking
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (13)
View all 13 artworks →
Record
Images
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Gerrit Rietveld
Shared movement
Kenneth Noland
Shared movement
Sanford Biggers
Shared movement
Gary Hill
Shared movement
Dorothy Dehner
Shared movement
Emilio Vedova
Shared movement
Christopher Williams
Also printmaking
Dana Schutz
Also printmaking
Joe Bradley
Also printmaking
Marcel Janco
Also printmaking
Milton Glaser
Also printmaking
Alfred Rudolph
Also printmaking
Record
Movements and affiliations
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Record