Denis Phillips (aka Denis R. Phillips)

American, b. 1938

Untitled
1999

Oil on canvas
34.25 x 28.5 x 1.5 in.
Museum Purchase with the Charter Member Endowment Fund
1999.149

• 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)."
• black
• blue
• brown
• diagonal - Inclined obliquely from a reference line, like a straight line joining the two opposite corners of a rectangle.
• gestural
• green
• grey
• maroon
• rectangles
• red
• triangles