Modern Wing

Robert Motherwell

Reconciliation Elegy, 1978

Rachel Whiteread

Ghost, 1990

Richard Serra

Five Plates, Two Poles, 1971

Ellsworth Kelly

Color Panels for a Large Wall, 1978

Frank Stella

La scienzia della fiacca (4x), 1984

Roy Lichtenstein

Entablature, 1975

Aristide Maillol

Venus, 1918/1928

Alberto Giacometti

Walking Man II, 1960


Charles Sheeler
Classic Landscape, 1931


Arthur Dove
Moth Dance, 1929

There was also a never-before-seen oil by Francis Bacon from around 1954 called Study for a Running Dog. Experience has taught me that Bacon's paintings are virtually impossible to photograph under museum lights because of glare from the glass (he insisted they be exhibited behind glass) and glare from the big shiny frames (he insisted on those too, though the frames are usually gold and not chrome like this one). But I had to make a poor memorial for myself, just like a groupie happy to take even the crappiest photo of the band.