Without Title (Subway Drawing)
2011 · Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
7 1/2 × 11 1/4" (19.1 × 28.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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William Anastasi
1933
PaintingConceptual Art
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19
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37
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William Anastasi was an American artist working across drawing, printmaking, and installation whose practice emerged from postwar abstraction and conceptual inquiry. He developed a distinctive approach to mark-making that prioritized chance, perception, and the act of observation itself, often working with minimal means and repetitive gesture. His work engaged with ideas of process and contingency that anticipated later developments in systems-based and process art.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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