Aleksandr Rodchenko
Untitled
c. 1926
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Untitled
c. 1926
Physical Qualities
Collage of gelatin silver prints and brush and black ink, Sheet: 262 x 194 mm. (10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.521
Untitled is informed by Aleksandr Rodchenko’s interest in graphic design, photography, and geometric abstraction. Here the artist has placed an image of an airplane above
a photograph of the backs of two horses taken by the artist while riding in a wagon—the two images, grossly out of scale with one another, are loosely connected via two geometric black shapes set against a plain white ground. This modernist composition conveys something of the experience of encountering two forms of transportation, one old and one new, on the streets of Moscow at the time.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision,' December 12, 2001-April 7, 2002.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision,' December 12, 2001-April 7, 2002.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Inscribed: At lower right, in white ink: "AR"
Markings: None
