Artist Monograph

Larry Poons, American

American, born Japan 1937

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Drawing	3	50%
Screenprint	2	33.3%
Other Media	1	16.7%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	5	83.3%
Painting & Sculpture	1	16.7%

Production by Decade

1

0s

1

1950s

4

1960s

Classification Types

Drawing — 3
Print — 2
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	1	16.7%
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	66.7%
Large (1–3 m)	1	16.7%

Range: 20.7 cm → 203.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1963	1
1965	1
1967	1
2018	3

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 6 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Drawing Acc. 1557.2018	n.d.	Pencil on paper	14 × 15" (35.6 × 38.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Fugue Drawing Acc. 1555.2018	1959	Graphite and color pencil on graph paper	21 7/8 × 16 7/8" (55.6 × 42.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Night on Cold Mountain Painting Acc. 271.1963	1962	Synthetic polymer paint and dye on canvas	6' 8" x 6' 8" (203.1 x 203.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund
Untitled from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) Print Acc. 139.1965.8	1964	One from a portfolio of ten screenprints	composition: 15 7/8 x 15 15/16" (40.4 x 40.5cm); sheet: 24 x 20 1/16" (61 x 50.9cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Harry C. Oppenheimer (by exchange)
Untitled Drawing Acc. 1556.2018	1965	Pencil on graph paper	17 × 22" (43.2 × 55.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Untitled from Ten from Leo Castelli Print Acc. 2415.1967.5	1967	Screenprint	composition: 8 1/8 x 6 3/16" (20.7 x 15.7cm); sheet: 24 x 19 15/16" (60.9 x 50.7cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Rosa Esman