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Houses on a Barge
1929 · Oil on canvas
16 x 21 in. (40.6 x 53.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Helen Torr
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Gifts of Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Helen Torr was an American modernist painter who worked in oil and watercolor to explore the relationship between geometric form, color, and spatial depth. Her abstract compositions employed a restrained palette and flattened perspectival space, engaging with the formal innovations of early twentieth-century American modernism. Active from the 1920s until her death in 1967, Torr developed a distinctive approach to non-representational painting that balanced geometric rigor with subtle chromatic variation.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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