John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Frank O. Gehry, Ann Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Julie Mehretu, Ken Price, Susan Rothenberg, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle, Frank Shepard Fairey, Various Artists
Artists for Obama
2008
Portfolio of six lithographs (one with screenprint), three screenprints, three etchings (one with aquatint), and two drypoints with chine collé
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Ellsworth Kelly
American, 1923–2015 338 works onlineIn 1951, the 28-year-old artist Ellsworth Kelly submitted a grant to the Guggenheim Foundation, proposing “an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements, aiming to establish a new scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, providing a way for painting to accompany modern architecture.
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Edward Ruscha
American, born 1937 254 works onlineOnce, when asked about the abundance of text in his work, Ed Ruscha explained, “I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.
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Julie Mehretu
American, born Ethiopia 1970 53 works onlineJulie Mehretu made Empirical Construction, Istanbul to show at the Istanbul Biennial in 2003. She has called it a “portrait of a city,” and the painting pays homage to the Turkish cosmopolis that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosporus Strait, but it is nowhere pictured as a place.
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Susan Rothenberg
American, 1945–2020 44 works onlineBorn in Buffalo, New York, in 1945, Susan Rothenberg became interested in art at an early age, inspired by her grandfather, a house painter, and trips to Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
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