Green Squares (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts)

Joseph Schillinger, Green Squares (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts), ca. 1934, tempera on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Schillinger, 1966.39.2
Joseph Schillinger, Green Squares (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts), ca. 1934, tempera on paperboard, 11 7⁄8 x 11 1⁄4 in. (30.1 x 28.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Schillinger, 1966.39.2
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Artwork Details

Title
Green Squares (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts)
Artist
Date
ca. 1934
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
11 7⁄8 x 11 1⁄4 in. (30.1 x 28.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Schillinger
Mediums Description
tempera on paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Abstract
Object Number
1966.39.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1966.39.2

Works by this artist (1 item)

Hans Erni, "The reason, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do; if this is so, there is a common law also; if this is so, we are fellow-citizens; if this is so, we are members of some political community; if this is so, the world is in a manner a state...My nature is rational and social; and my city and country, so far as I am Antonius, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world."--Marcus Aurelius Antonius, 121-180. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1950, gouache, scratchwork and india ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.88
“The reason, in respect of which we are rational beings, is…
Artist
Date1950
gouache, scratchwork and india ink on paper
Not on view

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Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.--Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
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