Franklin Williams

American, b. 1940

Untitled
1980

Acrylic on paper
30 x 38 x 2.375 in.
Gift of Robert and Laura Lewis
1991.36

• 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)."
• brown
• cobble - A rock fragment, rounded or otherwise abraded, with a diameter between 64 and 256 mm, being larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder. The term can also refer more specifically to a rounded stone suitable for use in paving or other construction.
• diagonal - Inclined obliquely from a reference line, like a straight line joining the two opposite corners of a rectangle.
• geometric abstraction
• green
• leaf
• red
• white

• Transcendence: Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West , 9/1/2015 - 12/10/2016