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Larry Poons, American, born 1937 (Artist)
Fifty Works for Fifty States: In 2008, in a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed twenty-five hundred works across the country, giving fifty works to one art museum in each of the fifty states. This exhibition, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, showcases the fifty works VMFA received as part of that initiative, which bears the same title. As a diverse and rich body of work, the Vogels' generous giftattests to their passion and commitment to sharing contemporary art with the public.
Larry Poons Poons rose to prominence in the early 1960s with his polkadot paintings. Scattered across an even field of background color, the dots or ellipses were usually painted in a bright complementary color, creating an optical effect of movement, as if the dots were jumping or blinking. This undated, untitled drawing is most likely a plan for one of these early paintings. Poons frequently used a grid and mathematical equations to achieve his conceptually complex and visually intense works.
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