
Catalogue
- Year
- 1998
- Medium
- Pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 1/8 x 26 1/8" (51.1 x 66.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Jake Berthot
Artist
Printmaking
Jake Berthot was an American painter whose abstractions emerged from careful observation of light, color, and the materiality of paint itself. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas from the 1960s onward, his compositions balance gestural mark-making with structured compositional discipline, reflecting a sustained engagement with postwar abstraction. His work occupied a distinctive position between the expressive abstraction of the 1950s and the conceptual developments of later decades.
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1989 · Ink and crayon on paper
Anawanda
1985 · Oil on linen
Untitled
1985 · Ink, gouache and pencil on paper
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- Jake Berthot
- Year
- 1998
- Medium
- Pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 1/8 x 26 1/8" (51.1 x 66.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1998-M078219
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





