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Howard Mehring, Banner, 1957, acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection, 1980.6.13
Howard Mehring, Banner, 1957, acrylic on canvas, 52 1⁄2 x 65 1⁄2 in. (133.4 x 166.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection, 1980.6.13

Artwork Details

Title
Banner
Artist
Date
1957
Location
Dimensions
52 1⁄2 x 65 1⁄2 in. (133.4 x 166.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection
Mediums
Mediums Description
acrylic on canvas
Classifications
Subjects
  • Abstract
Object Number
1980.6.13
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1980.6.13

Artwork Description

During the late 1950s, Howard Mehring based his work on Jackson Pollock’s “drip” paintings. He described his experiments as “stained” Pollocks, because his thin paints penetrated the fibers of the unprimed canvas. Mehring compared his translucent washes of color to the tonalities of music, saying that he wanted to capture the “floating sensation” of jazz in his paintings. (Livingston, Howard Mehring: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1978)

Works by this artist (3 items)

E. McKnight Kauffer, "Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering."--Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1953, India ink and gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.139
“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of…
Artist
Date1953
India ink and gouache on paperboard
Not on view
E. McKnight Kauffer, Montana, from the United States Series, 1946, gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.140
Montana, from the United States Series
Artist
Date1946
gouache on paperboard
Not on view
E. McKnight Kauffer, One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series, 1941, photomechanical reproduction on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.141
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series
Artist
Date1941
photomechanical reproduction on paper mounted on paperboard
Not on view

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