Girl's Head

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
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Girl's Head
Date
1927
Medium
Graphite on paper
Classification
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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