Girl's Head
George Copeland Ault
American Art
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.
MEDIUM
Graphite on paper
DATES
1927
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)
(show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right in graphite: "G. C. Ault '27"
ACCESSION NUMBER
81.250.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Maurice Vanderwoude in memory of Louise Ault
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
George Copeland Ault (American, 1891â1948). Girl's Head, 1927. Graphite on paper, sheet: 15 5/8 x 13 5/16 in. (39.7 x 33.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Maurice Vanderwoude in memory of Louise Ault, 81.250.1 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 81.250.1_PS3.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 81.250.1_PS3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
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