The Toledo Museum of Art acquires work by Virginia Jaramillo

Virginia Jaramillo's 1969 work Untitled has been acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, OH, USA, purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.

 

Untitled (1969) is an example of a body of work, known as Curvilinear paintings - vivid fields of color painted onto large canvases are disrupted by precise lines in contrasting shades that curve and occasionally intersect. The mathematical precision of these curves, (which were initially formulated on large sheets of tracing paper layered over the canvases before being painstakingly translated into paint), and the flatness of the paintings' surfaces demonstrate Jaramillo's close affinities with significant movements within abstraction at the time.