untitled (study for Forsyth St 4), Joseph White

Artwork Overview

born 1938
untitled (study for Forsyth St 4), circa 1971
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: paper; pencil
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 21.7 x 21.9 cm at widest points
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 9/16 x 8 5/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 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: 2009.0086
Not on display

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Label texts

Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns Despite the text penciled boldly beneath this drawing, it is a preparatory sketch for an oil painting that would be titled Forsyth St 4 (see image at left). White produced a large series of street-name paintings in the early 1970s, offering abstracted bird’s-eye-views of New York’s Lower East Side. Although historically an immigrant neighborhood, the Lower East Side became a magnet for hippies, artists, and musicians in the mid-to-late 1960s. The Vogels recount that they were drawn to this neighborhood on weekends to visit its many galleries and artist studios.

Exhibitions

Susan Earle, curator
Stephen Goddard, curator
2011

Citations

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. Washington DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 2008.