Woman Carrying Grasses
1958 · Oil on canvas
20 x 15" (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Patrick Scott
1921
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Patrick Scott was an Irish painter and sculptor whose abstract work investigated geometric systems and color relationships through grids, tessellations, and carefully modulated palettes. Active from the 1940s onward, his practice embodied a constructive, mathematical approach to abstraction rather than gestural expression. Scott's disciplined investigations of the intersection between geometric principle and visual perception positioned his work within postwar European modernism's expansion into systematic abstraction.
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