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Object Details
- Artist
- Calvin Douglass
- Date
- 1964
- Medium
- mixed media on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 36 1/16 × 35 7/8 × 2 5/8 in. (91.6 × 91.2 × 6.7 cm)
- Caption
- In this mixed media composition by Calvin Douglass (1931-), one can imagine immense red drops falling into white paint, the dynamic displacement forming a molten disc in which concentric circles and bubbles abound. Ridges of plaster ringing the circle contribute to the illusion of splashes from incoming objects. In another three-dimensional element, a round cutout on the circle’s upper edge reveals red, collaged spheres below the painting’s surface. Douglass created this artwork while participating in Spiral, a diverse group of African American artists who met weekly from 1963 to 1965 to discuss the role of artists in the Civil Rights Movement and the relationship of aesthetics and political expression. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Douglass studied at Howard University. He worked as a medical illustrator and model-maker at Washington, DC’s General Hospital, influences of which can be seen in the sculptural, layered, and biomorphic elements in his work. He went on to have a career teaching art, first at Long Island University and later, at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.
- Accession Number
- 2002.0002.0004
- Type
- painting
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2002.0002.0004
