Artist Monograph

Joaquín Torres-García, Uruguayan

Uruguayan, 1874–1949

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Oil Painting	8	53.3%
Tempera	1	6.7%
Sculpture	1	6.7%
Drawing	1	6.7%
Woodcut	1	6.7%
Lithography	1	6.7%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Painting & Sculpture	8	53.3%
Drawings & Prints	7	46.7%

Production by Decade

3

1920s

10

1930s

2

1940s

Classification Types

Painting — 7
Illustrated Book — 4
Drawing — 3
Sculpture — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	23.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	8	61.5%
Large (1–3 m)	2	15.4%

Range: 17.3 cm → 102.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1942	2
1945	1
1956	1
1961	1
1967	1
1968	3
1977	1
1981	1
2004	2
2008	1
2012	1

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 5, 512" — 3

Uruguayan Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 15 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Street Scene Painting Acc. 725.1976	New York 1920-22	Oil on canvas	39 1/8 x 32" (99.4 x 81.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Morton G. Neumann
Guitar Painting Acc. 433.1981	1924	Painted wood	12 1/2 x 4 x 3 1/8" (37.7 x 10 x 7.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Untitled (Figures) Painting Acc. 207.2008	1927	Oil on canvas	28 x 37 3/4" (71.1 x 95.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Pierre and Albert Loeb
Color Structure Painting Acc. 311.2004	1930	Oil on canvas	24 x 20" (61 x 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection (by exchange)
Composition Painting Acc. 281.1956	1931	Oil on canvas	36 1/8 x 24" (91.7 x 61 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Larry Aldrich
Construction with Curved Forms Sculpture Acc. 1787.2012	1931	Oil and nails on wood	19 1/2 x 16 1/8 x 1/2" (49.5 x 41 x 1.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Given anonymously
Duplicate of plate (inserted supplementary plate) from LA REGLA ABSTRACTA Illustrated Book Acc. 775.1968.2	1931-1967		⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
La Regla Abstracta Illustrated Book Acc. 775.1968.1-2	1931, published 1967	Illustrated book with one woodcut and one supplementary duplicate woodcut	ea. irreg. composition 11 5/16 x 8 3/16" (28.8 x 20.8 cm) page 13 5/16 x 10" (33 x 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
Plate (tipped onto folio preceding page 1) from LA REGLA ABSTRACTA Illustrated Book Acc. 775.1968.1	1931-1967		⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund
Composition Drawing Acc. 2412.1967	1932	Ink and pencil on brown paper	8 7/8 x 7 1/4" (22.5 x 18.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Lejwa, in memory of Mrs. Henry Epstein
Composition Painting Acc. 611.1942	1932	Oil on canvas	28 1/4 x 19 3/4" (71.8 x 50.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Dr. Román Fresnedo Siri
Plate (folio 45) from 23 Gravures Illustrated Book Acc. 14.1945.21	1934, published 1935	Woodcut from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (one with aquatint and drypoint), five drypoints, three engravings (one with drypoint), two lithographs, and one woodcut	composition: 6 13/16 × 5 1/4" (17.3 × 13.3 cm); sheet: 11 × 9 13/16" (27.9 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase Fund
Construction in White and Black Painting Acc. 331.2004	1938	Glue tempera on cardboard mounted on wood	31 3/4 x 40 1/8" (80.7 x 102 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of David Rockefeller
Portrait of Wagner Drawing Acc. 127.1961	1940	Oil on board	16 1/8 x 14 5/8" (40.9 x 37.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Robbins
The Port Drawing Acc. 801.1942	1942	Oil on board	31 3/8 x 39 7/8" (79.7 x 101.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Inter-American Fund