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Abstract and colour

Colour studies, flattened shapes and landscapes on the way to abstraction, from Japanese design prints to early modern painting, chosen for their colour behind a dashboard.

Abstract and colour: the collection's first works, side by side
The collection's first works, side by side. On a screen each work shows whole, with its placard.

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Works from Art Institute of Chicago and The Cleveland Museum of Art · public domain (CC0)

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The 24 works

In the order the collection plays them, each with what it shows. Every title links to the work's page at its museum.

  • Houses at Murnau (opens in a new tab) · Vasily Kandinsky (Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944) · 1909 · Oil on cardboard · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Yellow and pink houses on a hillside above a sloping golden field, painted in thick strokes of bright yellow, blue, green and red.
  • Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Rising Waves (Tachinami) (opens in a new tab) · Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942) · 1909–10 · color woodcuts with gold and silver · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A stylised cream wave curling across a dark blue ground in front of a large silver moon.
  • Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico (opens in a new tab) · Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943) · 1920 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Rounded New Mexico hills built from patches of pink, ochre and green under swirling white and blue clouds.
  • The Rocky Seashore (opens in a new tab) · Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924) · c. 1907–10 · watercolor with traces of graphite · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A watercolour of red and orange rocks along a deep blue sea, with a small lighthouse island under a streaky pink and blue sky.
  • Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree) (opens in a new tab) · Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1892 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A Tahitian shore in flat areas of deep green, violet and ochre, with a large tree, a thatched hut, fallen branches and a pale blue bay.
  • The Long Road or Argilla Road (opens in a new tab) · Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922) · c. 1898 · Color woodcut · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A colour woodcut of a pale dirt road curving between green fields and dark trees, with an orange sunset band on the horizon.
  • Les Andelys, Côte d'Aval (opens in a new tab) · Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935) · 1886 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A riverside village with a church spire below striped hillside fields, painted in small dots of blue, pink, green and cream.
  • Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Small Waves (Komani) (opens in a new tab) · Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942) · 1909–10 · color woodcuts with gold and silver · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Bands of pale silver waves crossing a calm sand-coloured ground in a simple, almost abstract print.
  • Farm near Duivendrecht (opens in a new tab) · Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) · c. 1916 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A farmhouse among bare, interlacing trees reflected in still water, painted in soft pinks, oranges and greys.
  • Orange Orchids, from an untitled series of flowers (opens in a new tab) · Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849, Publisher: Hibino Yohachi, Japanese, unknown) · c. 1832 · Color woodblock print; oban · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A woodblock print of coral orange lilies on tall stems with long dark green leaves against a pale turquoise ground.
  • Flüelen, from the Lake of Lucerne (opens in a new tab) · Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851) · 1845 · watercolor with gouache and scratch-away · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A watercolour of a lakeside town in a haze of gold and pale blue light, with mountains dissolving into mist.
  • Poppies, from an untitled series of flowers (opens in a new tab) · Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849) · c. 1832 · Color woodblock print; oban · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A woodblock print of coral pink poppies with spiky blue-green leaves on a pale turquoise ground.
  • Across the Fields (opens in a new tab) · Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1899 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A colour lithograph of figures walking through a flowering green meadow under long streaks of blue cloud.
  • Movement No. 10 (opens in a new tab) · Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943) · 1917 · Oil on composition board · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A cubist still life of a pear and two bananas on a white napkin and a round dark plate, broken into flat white, grey and ochre shapes.
  • Beach, St. Malo (opens in a new tab) · Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924) · c. 1907 · watercolor with gouache over graphite · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A watercolour of a bright blue bay with a stone fort on rocks, and beachgoers with red and blue parasols on the sand in the foreground.
  • Charing Cross Bridge, London (opens in a new tab) · Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1901 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A bridge and the towers of Westminster dissolving into a hazy fog of pale yellow, lilac and green.
  • Moonrise (opens in a new tab) · Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922) · c. 1915 · color woodcut · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A colour woodcut of a white moon rising behind red rocks on a low sandbar, reflected in calm violet-grey water.
  • Te raau rahi (The Big Tree) (opens in a new tab) · Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1891 · Oil on jute canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A Tahitian garden of tall pale tree trunks, broad leaves and thatched huts, with figures resting on the green grass in bright, flat colour.
  • Aspects of Nature: The Island (opens in a new tab) · Henri Rivière (French, 1864–1951) · 1898 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A colour print of a pine-framed cove with pink rocks, small sailing boats on pale green water and islands under soft clouds.
  • Landscape with Two Poplars (opens in a new tab) · Vasily Kandinsky (Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944) · 1912 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A village landscape broken into bold blocks of red, blue, green and yellow, with two tall poplar trees.
  • Evening (opens in a new tab) · Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935) (printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936)) · 1898 · Lithograph in five colors (light blue, blue, yellow, pink and green) on ivory wove chine · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A pale colour lithograph of a harbour at evening, with a pier, a lighthouse tower and sailing boats drawn in small dabs of blue and yellow.
  • Café Wepler (opens in a new tab) · Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912 · oil on fabric · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A bustling Paris café interior glowing with pink and gold light, with white tables and bentwood chairs in the foreground.
  • Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West (opens in a new tab) · Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) · c. 1899 · Watercolor, gouache, and fabricated black chalk, with erasures, on cream wove paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A watercolour of pollarded willows and bare trees along a still canal, with boats moored and a distant city skyline.
  • Aspects of Nature: The Cliff (opens in a new tab) · Henri Rivière (French, 1864–1951) · 1897 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A colour print of green, moss-covered cliffs above a pale foaming sea, with a herder and animals grazing on the clifftop.

Credits and review status

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