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Don Hazlitt

born 1948

untitled, 1981

Where object was made: New York, United States

Material/technique: mixed media; paper

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 31.5 x 26.5 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 3/8 x 10 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Accession number: 2009.0049

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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns Don Hazlitt’s work has been discussed in terms of the painter Hans Hofmann’s “push and pull” technique, which concerns the ability of color and non-representational form to create a convincing sense of space. Drawing heavily with a variety of media, Hazlitt creates a surprising sense of dimensionality, as if the work were a cardboard cutout or spraypaint stencil raised slightly above a surface. Hazlitt’s white, silhouetted figure (or is it ground?), with its soft “shoulders” and jagged “head” offers access to a whimsical alternative to the formal, compositional questions posed by this work.