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Two Heads
1947 · Photographically processed silver image on paper
composition and sheet: 24 5/8 × 29 1/4" (62.5 × 74.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Dorothy Hood
Artist
PaintingAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism
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None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
5
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- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Expressionism
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Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Young American Printmakers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953–1954
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Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945
About
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Dorothy Hood was an American abstract expressionist painter whose gestural compositions emerged from sustained engagement with spontaneous mark-making and layered pigment, creating densely textured surfaces that balance control and chance. Based in Houston from the 1950s, she developed her practice independently of major artistic centers, allowing her work to remain distinctive within postwar abstraction. Her color-rich compositions built up through accumulated gestural marks became a signature formal approach across five decades of painting.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
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