Thanks to PhD student Jennifer Stettler Parsons, a few Phillips employees took a field trip on April 13 to George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium to see the last abstract painting of Augustus Vincent Tack in a most unexpected form.
In preparation for the upcoming exhibition, Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border, Curator Elsa Smithgall and Conservator Lilli Steele check color proofs for the catalogue by comparing them against the colors of Kandinsky’s original 1913 oil painting Sketch I for Painting with White Border (Moscow) in the conservation studio.
Jackson Pollock began making collages in 1943 at the invitation of Peggy Guggenheim, who organized an international Exhibition of Collage at her gallery Art of This Century. The Phillips’s Collage and Oil, executed in 1951, is probably one of Pollock’s last collages.
