Object Notes

In 1999, the Dallas Museum of Art acquired the complete editioned work of the renowned German artist Gerhard Richter. Dating from the mid-1960s to 1999, the portfolio traces Richter's career, and in doing so provides a concise history of art in the late 20th century through Richter's lens.

Plate 40 belongs to a series by R

The themes of transit and historical discovery that recur in Simon Starling’s work are central to the development of his sculpture

Karla Black materializes sculptures from “impermanent and raw” substances that are common to everyday life but unexpected for the medium—sugar paper, bath bombs, eyeshadow, cellophane, and chalk, to name a few.

The title Spugna, or “sponge,” suggests how this painting was made. Each cell was created by pressing an acrylic-laden sponge firmly against the canvas surface.

Frank Bowling’s Map Paintings refer to the cartographic outlines of countries and continents that haunt a series of abstract color paintings made between 1967 and 1972.

During a particular moment in American history, African American artists such as Melvin Edwards voiced their own experience of the civil rights movement through art.

Jacqueline Humphries’s paintings resist interpretation. Rather than establishing content, Humphries attempts to alter the baseline conditions of viewing a painting in order to, in her words, “anticipate a new kind of viewing.”