John Paul Jones

American
(1924–1999)

Purple and Brown Nude
Date unknown

Etching
30.125 x 30.125 in.
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.200

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• nude
• rectangles
• woman

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