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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Moskowitz, Robert Creator Dates/Places: American, born 1935 Creator Name-CRT: Robert Moskowitz Title: Untitled (Empire State Building) View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1980 Creation End Date: 1980 Creation Date: 1980 Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors Materials and Techniques: Graphite, pastel on paper Dimensions: Overall: 106 x 31 1/4 in. (269.24 x 79.38 cm.) AMICA Contributor: Dallas Museum of Art Owner Location: Dallas, Texas, USA ID Number: 1995.147 Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Marguerite and Robert K. Hoffman Rights: http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org Context: Robert Moskowitz has blended the border between literalness and abstraction since the 1960s. In the 1970s, he became a prominent leader of the New Image movement (from the Whitney Museum's 1978 exhibition "New Image Painting"). Following a decade dominated by minimalism, this group of artists, which included Nicholas Africano, Neil Jenney, and Susan Rothenberg, brought back figural imagery as a vital formal tool as well as a psychologically charged instrument.Moskowitz is interested in architectural structures as a means to explore the balance between abstraction and representation. In the 1970s he created "rooms," an arrangement of doorways, corners, and beams on a single color field, which relates to American precisionism, most notably the work of Demuth and Sheeler. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Moskowitz began to create epic-scale works of Western cultural and popular icons?Rodin's "Thinker," Brancusi's "Bird," the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, the Flatiron Building?as well as smokestacks and lighthouses. These concise, familiar images on elusive, textured bckgrounds reveal Moskowitz's connections to both pop art and abstract expressionism.Tall and thin, the iconic "Empire State Building" appears to rise endlessly against a dark background. It contains a wonderful tension between surface and depth. Parts of the building, alternately solid and dappled, are luminous. Of both monumental and human scale, this image ironically elicits feelings of grandeur and intimacy."Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection," page 289 AMICA ID: DMA_.1995.147 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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