Startled Woman
1956 · Oil on canvas
19 x 26 1/8" (48.2 x 66.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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New York Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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Romantic Painting in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943–1944
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Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones was an American painter and printmaker working in oil and watercolor across landscape and figurative subjects from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. Her work integrated modernist compositional strategies with sustained attention to light and atmosphere, distinguishing her approach from purely stylistic abstraction. Her paintings and prints are held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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