Untitled, 1969
- Artist
William T. Williams
- Title
Untitled
- Date
1969
- Medium
Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (59.7 × 44.5 cm) Frame: 25 5/8 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (65.1 × 50.2 × 3.5 cm)
- Edition
ED: 107/144
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Charles Cowles, New York
- Object Number
1981.2.4
William T. Williams’s abstractions unite explorations of shape, movement, and color with reflections on place, music, and the artist’s early memories. This work uses a diamond motif that runs throughout Williams’s paintings and prints. Instead of restricting his work, this repetition is generative and serves as a place to improvise—alluding to the quilting traditions of his childhood and jazz. Here, the colorful, flat planes of the diamond are layered upon one other and interrupted by arcs and stripes of color to create a dynamic space that evokes the rhythms of jazz, the feel of walking through the city and patchwork textile patterns.
Untitled, 1969
- Artist
William T. Williams
- Title
Untitled
- Date
1969
- Medium
Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (59.7 × 44.5 cm) Frame: 25 5/8 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (65.1 × 50.2 × 3.5 cm)
- Edition
ED: 107/144
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Charles Cowles, New York
- Object Number
1981.2.4
William T. Williams’s abstractions unite explorations of shape, movement, and color with reflections on place, music, and the artist’s early memories. This work uses a diamond motif that runs throughout Williams’s paintings and prints. Instead of restricting his work, this repetition is generative and serves as a place to improvise—alluding to the quilting traditions of his childhood and jazz. Here, the colorful, flat planes of the diamond are layered upon one other and interrupted by arcs and stripes of color to create a dynamic space that evokes the rhythms of jazz, the feel of walking through the city and patchwork textile patterns.