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Datura, Ellsworth Kelly, 1982, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the artist in honor of Kathy Fuld Size: 30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Medium: Graphite on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/130775

Barbara Hepworth (British, 1903–1975) - Turning form (Atlantic), oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board, 63 x 45 cm (1961)

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Rosemarie Castoro

Brushstroke series 1972 (coded shorthand for her friend Agnes Martin)

@ MACBA Barcelona, Spain

Primordial Chaos Series

Hilma Af Klint

Primordial Chaos series

Hilma Af Klint

Jonathan Baldock, 2009

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jonathan baldock-The Healing Language of Beuys

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“What does it mean when the organic goes head-to-head with the geologic? We start talking about deep time and the quotidian in the same breath, along with all the strata in between. All of these organisms are living palimpsests: they contain myriad layers of their own histories within themselves, along with records of natural and human events; new chapters written over the old, year after year, millennium after millennium. When we look at them in the frame of deep time, a bigger picture emerges, and we start to see how all of the individuals have stories, and that all of those stories are in turn interconnected – and in turn, inextricably connected to us all.”

“The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.”

–Rachel Sussman, The Oldest Living Things in the World

All images from Sussman’s book.

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER b.1928

Yellow Crater

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Yves Klein

Monochrome jaune sans titre, 1957

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Louise Bourgeois, Les Fleurs (MOMA 698), (screenprint in red with gouache hand additions), 2009, XIX/L [The Ginny Williams Collection. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY]