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Figure study

20th century
20th century
14 in. x 11 in. (35.56 cm x 27.94 cm)

Diane Williams, American, (1931–2004)

Object Type: Paintings

Creation Place: North America, United States

Medium and Support: Oil on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection, gift of the estate of Diane Williams, class of 1953

Accession Number: 2005.004

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20th Century, 21st Century, American*, Contemporary*, figures (representations)*, oil (substance)*, oil painting (technique)*, oil paintings (visual works)*, paintings (visual works)*, paper (fiber product)*

20th Century
21st Century
American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
figures (representations) - Representations of humans or animals.
oil (substance) - General term for a wide variety of viscous liquids (or easily liquefiable on warming) that are both combustible and immiscible in water. The character of oils may be mineral (e.g., paraffin), vegetable (e.g., linseed), animal (e.g., fish), essential (e.g., turpentine), or edible (e.g., olive).
oil painting (technique) - The art or practice of producing creative works in oil paint, which is pigment suspended in vegetal drying oils. It dates from at least the Middle Ages in Europe, and was widely adopted for easel painting by the fifteenth century.
oil paintings (visual works) - Creative works in the medium of oil paint.
paintings (visual works) - Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.

Dimensions

image Dimensions: 14 in. x 11 in. (35.56 cm x 27.94 cm)

Object Results

Figure study