James Armstrong

American, b. 1937

Untitled
1978

Watercolor on board
23.875 x 20 in.
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.2002

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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)."
• blue
• diagonal - Inclined obliquely from a reference line, like a straight line joining the two opposite corners of a rectangle.
• lines
• purple
• white