Annabel Sitting
Purchase, Gift of Charles E. Slatkin and his wife, Regina Shoolman, by exchange, 1994
Catalogue
- Year
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 15 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (38.7 × 50.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Euan Uglow
Artist

Painting
Euan Uglow is a British painter whose nude and still life compositions are constructed through meticulous measurement and geometric marking on the canvas surface. Working from a method developed by his teacher William Coldstream, Uglow treats the act of sight itself as a disciplined visual problem, inscribing proportional relationships directly into the paint. His practice rejects both gestural expressionism and illusionistic finish, instead presenting the mechanics of observation as integral to the work's meaning. Based in London, Uglow's restrained palette and emphasis on measured construction position his work as a rigorous alternative to the dominant painterly modes of the postwar period.
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- Euan Uglow
- Year
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 15 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (38.7 × 50.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1988-159397
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified
