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Artworks

Untitled, 1969

  • Artist

    William T. Williams

  • Title

    Untitled

  • Date

    1969

  • Medium

    Screenprint on paper

  • Dimensions

    23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (59.7 × 44.5 cm) Frame: 25 5/8 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (65.1 × 50.2 × 3.5 cm)

  • Edition

    ED: 107/144

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Charles Cowles, New York

  • Object Number

    1981.2.4

William T. Williams’s abstractions unite explorations of shape, movement, and color with reflections on place, music, and the artist’s early memories. This work uses a diamond motif that runs throughout Williams’s paintings and prints. Instead of restricting his work, this repetition is generative and serves as a place to improvise—alluding to the quilting traditions of his childhood and jazz. Here, the colorful, flat planes of the diamond are layered upon one other and interrupted by arcs and stripes of color to create a dynamic space that evokes the rhythms of jazz, the feel of walking through the city and patchwork textile patterns.


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Artworks

Untitled, 1969

  • Artist

    William T. Williams

  • Title

    Untitled

  • Date

    1969

  • Medium

    Screenprint on paper

  • Dimensions

    23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (59.7 × 44.5 cm) Frame: 25 5/8 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (65.1 × 50.2 × 3.5 cm)

  • Edition

    ED: 107/144

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Charles Cowles, New York

  • Object Number

    1981.2.4

William T. Williams’s abstractions unite explorations of shape, movement, and color with reflections on place, music, and the artist’s early memories. This work uses a diamond motif that runs throughout Williams’s paintings and prints. Instead of restricting his work, this repetition is generative and serves as a place to improvise—alluding to the quilting traditions of his childhood and jazz. Here, the colorful, flat planes of the diamond are layered upon one other and interrupted by arcs and stripes of color to create a dynamic space that evokes the rhythms of jazz, the feel of walking through the city and patchwork textile patterns.


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