
Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964
Catalogue
- Year
- 1759
- Medium
- Sheffield plate
- Dimensions
- 5 1/8 × 3 11/16 in. (13 × 9.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- John Hoyland
Artist

Printmaking
John Hoyland was a British abstract painter whose gestural works developed from Color Field painting in the 1960s toward increasingly expressive, layered compositions in acrylic and oil. His paintings combine bold chromatic relationships with dense, overlapping marks that resist easy legibility, creating a visual tension between control and spontaneity. Active from the postwar period through the early 2000s, Hoyland's practice engaged with the possibilities of non-representational painting as a vehicle for emotional and sensory experience rather than formal reduction.
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Record
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- John Hoyland
- Year
- 1759
- Medium
- Sheffield plate
- Dimensions
- 5 1/8 × 3 11/16 in. (13 × 9.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1759-530683
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





