Robert Mallary

American
(1917–1997)

Study for Sculpture (three drawings)
circa 1959

Graphite on paper
16.125 x 10.625 in.
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2020.15.3

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This object has the following keywords:

• 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)."
• lines
• rectangles