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Pink Forms
Pink Forms

Pink Forms

Artist Ralph J. Cox American, born 1944
Date20th century
MediumAcrylic enamel and oil-based enamel
Dimensions33 x 44 1/2 in. (83.8 x 113 cm)
Frame: 33 3/4 x 45 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (85.7 x 114.9 x 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.73.2.1
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These smooth forms, with edges so crisp they seem almost carved out of the work's surface, float mysteriously in space. Viewers may enjoy figuring out how Ralph Coxx has manipulated the shapes, which combine the biomorphic and the mechanistic. The same forms have been repeated, but in different colors and shading and in different orientations (reversed, upside-down, turned sideways). All the while, the bulges, wedges, and globes engage in a subtly humorous dialogue. The play between two and three dimensions, between the organic and the geometric, enlivens this elegantly precise painting.ProvenanceCreated North Carolina, ca. 1972; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 1973.Published ReferencesThirty-Fifth Annual North Carolina Artists' Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1972), cat. no. 17, illus. (b-w).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 41.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Thirty-Fifth Annual North Carolina Artists' Exhibition," November 29, 1972-January 21, 1973, cat. no. 17, illus. (b-w).
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