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Untitled
1962 · Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)
Image: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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William Baziotes
American, 1912
PaintingSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismColor Field
Representation
None documented
15
Institutional Exhibitions
19
Works in Collection
26
Assets Indexed
4
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Surrealism
- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Color Field
- • Abstract Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
About
Why this artist matters now
William Baziotes was an American abstract painter whose biomorphic forms emerged from automatic drawing and a sustained engagement with Surrealist psychology. Working primarily in oil on canvas from the 1940s until his death in 1963, he developed a vocabulary of floating, organic shapes that suggest marine life and primordial landscapes without representing them directly. His practice bridged the gestural abstraction of the New York School with a dreamlike, introspective sensibility rooted in chance and the unconscious. Baziotes' soft, translucent color fields and ambiguous figural elements established him as a distinctive voice in postwar American abstraction.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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