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Artists›Charles Gaines

Charles Gaines

1944

WA-00003982

Mixed MediaConceptual ArtPhotographyExpressionism

Representation

None documented

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Publications Referenced

70%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ18098196

Field Verification (4 fields)

2 cross-verified · 2 single-source

NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationGallery Hauser· 80%
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/charles-gaines
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/charles-gaines
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Paula-Cooper
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%

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Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (16)

WattsOS

Manifestos 2

2013 · Four-channel high-definition video (black and white and color, sound; 64 min.) and four graphite drawings

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1971)

2013 · Pencil on paper

Frame: 86 x 55" (218.4 x 139.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Manifestos 2

2013 · Four-channel high-definition video (black and white and color, sound)

64 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Malcom X Speech at Ford Auditorium (1965)

2013 · Pencil on paper

Frame: 80 3/4 x 55" (205.1 x 139.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

An Indigenous Manifesto (1999)

2013 · Pencil on paper

Frame: 86 x 55" (218.4 x 139.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Indocumentalisimo (2010)

2013 · Pencil on paper

Frame: 96 3/4 x 55" (245.7 x 139.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Working Drawings for Numbers and Trees #7

1989 · Ink and tape on graph paper

35 x 28" (88.9 x 71.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Shadows V, Set 1

1980 · Gelatin silver prints and ink on four sheets of paper

Frame: 24 1/2 x 72" (62.2 x 182.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Incomplete Text #6 "E"

1978 · Photostat (a); Pen and colored inks, correction fluid, and graphite pencil on paper (b); Pen and colored inks and graphite pencil on paper (c)

Overall: 27 5/8 × 59 3/4 in. (70.2 × 151.8 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Faces: Men and Women, #11, "Mary Ann Aloojian"

1978 · Gelatin silver print and ink on three sheets of paper

sheet (each): 23 x 19" (58.4 x 48.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Walnut Tree Orchard: Set 9

1975 · Silver gelatin print, pen and black ink on white wove Strathmore paper

Sheet: 73.3 × 58.3 cm (28 7/8 × 23 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Untitled

1975 · Etching

39 1/2 × 27 3/8" (100.3 × 69.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled

1975 · etching on wove paper

Image: 100.3 x 69.5 cm (39 1/2 x 27 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Color Regression #2

1962 · Lithograph on white wove paper

71.2 × 80.5 cm (28 1/16 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Color Regression #3

1962 · Lithograph on white wove paper

71.1 × 80.5 cm (28 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Color Regression #1

1962 · Lithograph on white wove paper

71.2 × 80.5 cm (28 1/16 × 31 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (4)

16 published of 16 catalogued · 12 with image

MoMA
10 published8 img
Art Institute Chicago
4 published4 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Art Institute of Chicago

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements3

Conceptual Art Photography Expressionism

Collections3

Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Background

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Visual Arts

Newark Arts High School

Visual Arts

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