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Figure with Guitar II
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The woman in this painting is barely visible through the intersecting planes of color and texture, and the curves of her body echo the rounded shapes of the guitar and apple. Henry Fitch Taylor divided the image into geometric shapes that resemble pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, each showing a different part of the woman’s body. The sharp angles and pillarlike shapes suggest a cityscape, as if she is surrounded by tall buildings.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFigure with Guitar II. 1914. Henry Fitch Taylor, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Plainfield, NH 1925. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mary Houston Eddy and Mrs. Marshall Langhorne. CC0.
