Painting with Ornamental Fragments #III

© Philip Taaffe

Painting with Ornamental Fragments #III

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Princeton Collects

Painting with Ornamental Fragments #III,

2012

Philip Taaffe, born 1955, Elizabeth, NJ; active New York, NY
2021-125
Taaffe combines silk-screening, stencils, and stamps to create works with layers of different colors and shapes. He incorporates fragments of scripts and decorative designs drawn from sketches made during his wide-ranging travels across Italy, the Middle East, India, Morocco, and South America.

Information

Title
Painting with Ornamental Fragments #III
Dates

2012

Maker
Philip Taaffe
Medium
Mixed media on canvas mounted on wood panel
Dimensions
81.3 × 61 cm (32 × 24 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift in honor of Peter B. Lewis
Object Number
2021-125
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Signatures
Signed, dated, and titled on verso: P. Taaffe, Painting with Ornamental Fragments #III, 2011-12
Culture
American
Type
mixed media, paintings
Materials
wood, canvas
Techniques
stenciling, screen printing, stamping (marking)
Subject
abstraction, geometric abstraction, geometric patterns

Private collector, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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