Early Abstract and Modernist Painting

Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946)
Kalounna in Frogtown, 1986
Oil on Masonite, 36 x 50 1/8 in. (91.4 x 127.3 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.163

Object-Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown

The son and grandson of important artists, Jamie Wyeth started to paint at a very young age. He continued their tradition of realist painting and often found inspiration in rural Pennsylvania and Maine. He is known for his immersive approach to portraiture, trying to “become” the person he depicts. A young boy, seeming at once fragile and defiant, dominates this large composition,. One hand is clenched in a fist while the other is tense and open. His name is Kalounna, and his parents, refugees from Laos, worked as caretakers on the Wyeth farm. His red T-shirt echoes the red trailer truck to the right and red shutters in the background. The shirt features the logo of the popular television series Dallas and may suggest the boy’s desire to assimilate to his newly adopted country. Painted in Frogtown, Pennsylvania, this highly detailed canvas evokes the tensions between nature and machine, childhood and adolescence, and native and foreign.

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Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946)
Kalounna in Frogtown, 1986
Oil on Masonite, 36 x 50 1/8 in. (91.4 x 127.3 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.163

Early Abstract and Modernist Painting

Joseph Stella (1877–1946)
Telegraph Poles with Buildings, 1917
Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (92.1 x 76.8 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.139
Max Weber (1881–1961)
Construction, 1915
Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (58.1 x 70.8 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1987.31
Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936)
Peinture, 1917–18
Oil and graphite on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 1/8 in. (65.1 x 81.6 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.21
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)
Painting No. 50, 1914–15
Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in. (119.4 x 119.4 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.61
Arthur Dove (1880–1946)
Nature Symbolized #3: Steeple and Trees, 1911–12
Pastel on board mounted on wood panel, 18 x 21 1/2 in. (45.7 x 54.6 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image courtesy: The Estate of Arthur G. Dove/Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1992.33
Arthur Dove (1880–1946)
Sails, 1911–12
Pastel on composition board mounted on wood panel, 17 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. (45.4 x 54.6 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image courtesy: The Estate of Arthur G. Dove/Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1993.10
Charles Demuth (1883–1935)
Welcome to Our City, 1921
Oil on canvas, 25 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (63.8 x 51.1 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1993.3
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1880–1953)
Boy with Cow, 1921
Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 in. (41 × 50.8 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund. Image © Estate of Yasuo Kuniyoshi/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York., 2017.1
Stuart Davis (1892–1964)
Super Table, 1925
Oil on canvas, 48 x 34 1/8 in. (122.2 x 86.7 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York., 1999.37
Helen Torr (1886–1967)
Purple and Green Leaves, 1927
Oil on copper mounted on board, 20 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (51.4 x 38.7 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.142
Arthur Dove (1880–1946)
Boat Going through Inlet, c. 1929
Oil on tin, 20 1/8 × 28 1/4 in. (51.1 × 71.8 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund. Image courtesy: The Estate of Arthur G. Dove/Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 2015.6
John Graham (1881–1961)
The Green Chair, 1928
Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 × 28 7/8 in. (100.3 × 73.3 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.60
John Storrs (1885–1956)
Politics, 1931
Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2008.1
John Marin (1870–1953)
Brooklyn Bridge, on the Bridge, 1930
Watercolor on paper, 21 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. (55.2 x 67.9 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image © Estate of John Marin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York., 1999.95
John Marin (1870–1953)
Sailboat, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Skyline, 1934
Oil on canvas board, 14 x 17 3/4 in. (35.6 x 45.1 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2006.1
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)
Red Amaryllis, 1937
Oil on canvas, 12 x 10 1/8 in. (30.5 x 25.7 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Gift of Mrs. Henrietta Roig. Image © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York., C1984.1
Albert Eugene Gallatin (1881–1952)
Room Space, 1937–38
Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 25 3/8 in. (76.8 x 64.5 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.56
Milton Avery (1885–1965)
Adolescence, 1947
Oil and graphite on canvas, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image © 2018 The Milton Avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York., 1992.3
George Tooker (1920–2011)
Highway, 1953
Egg tempera on gesso hardboard, 22 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (58.1 x 45.4 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Image © Estate of George Tooker. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York., 1992.134
Ed Paschke (1939–2004)
Topcat Boy, 1970
Acrylic on canvas, 71 x 51 in. (180.3 x 129.5 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2017.3
Philip Evergood (1901–1973)
Passing Show, 1951
Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite, 65 1/2 x 48 in. (166.4 x 121.9 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.34
Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946)
Kalounna in Frogtown, 1986
Oil on Masonite, 36 x 50 1/8 in. (91.4 x 127.3 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.163