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The Necklace
1958 · oil on canvas
Unframed: 157.4 x 122 cm (61 15/16 x 48 1/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Balcomb Greene
1904
PaintingAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
10
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
19
Assets Indexed
8
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Art Lending Service Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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New Images of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
About
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Balcomb Greene was an American painter whose early non-objective work drew from Cubism and geometric abstraction, particularly the influence of Mondrian and Gris. From the 1940s onward, his practice shifted toward landscapes and figuration, prioritizing intuitive and psychological presence over anatomical precision. A founding member of the American Abstract Artists and co-advocate with his wife Gertrude Glass Greene for modernist acceptance, he taught and worked in Millville, New York, developing a distinctive approach to the human figure that emphasized spiritual conflict and emotional depth.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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