Girl's Head

George Copeland Ault

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Like many modernist portraits, this drawing displays dynamic tensions between illusionistic three-dimensionality and the flatness of the paper support, between representation and abstraction, and between individualization and idealization. George Ault reduced the forms of the head into simplified shapes, creating passages of shading that contrast starkly with the large areas of blank paper.

Caption

George Copeland Ault American, 1891–1948. Girl's Head, 1927. Graphite on paper, sheet: 15 5/8 x 13 5/16 in. (39.7 x 33.8 cm) image: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (21 x 16.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Maurice Vanderwoude in memory of Louise Ault, 81.250.1. Orphaned work (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 81.250.1_PS3.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Girl's Head

Date

1927

Medium

Graphite on paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

sheet: 15 5/8 x 13 5/16 in. (39.7 x 33.8 cm) image: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (21 x 16.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right in graphite: "G. C. Ault '27"

Credit Line

Gift of Maurice Vanderwoude in memory of Louise Ault

Accession Number

81.250.1

Rights

Orphaned work

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