Piano (for Duke Ellington)

Artist Robert Moskowitz American, 1935–2024

Date1977

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions90 1/8 x 75 in. (228.9 x 190.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.34

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 1977; collection of the artist; [Max Protetch Gallery, New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, December 1978; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesThomas Lawson, “Robert Moskowitz at the Clocktower,” (exhibition review) Art News 66, no. 3 (May–June 1978), mentioned 115.

Ned Rifkin, Robert Moskowitz (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989), illus. (color) pl. 37.
Exhibition HistoryLong Island City, NY, MoMA PS 1 (The Clocktower), “Robert Moskowitz,” October 19–November 16, 1977, no. 3.

Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, “Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings,” March 22–May 10, 1981; Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, July 18–September 13, 1981.

Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, “Robert Moskowitz: 1959–1989,” June 21–September 17, 1989; La Jolla, CA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, October 20, 1989–January 7, 1990; New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, February 9–April 24,1990, no. 37, illus. (color).

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