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Artists›Hugh Townley

Hugh Townley

American, 1923

WA-00029786

Lafayette, IN, United States

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

121

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

70%

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Authority Records (1)

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Benrimo, Townley, Tyler: New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1955

Field Verification (4 fields)

3 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓
BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5914
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (59)

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Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

composition (irreg., each approx.): 5 1/4 × 6 9/16" (13.4 × 16.7 cm); sheet (each approx.): 5 1/2 × 6 13/16" (13.9 × 17.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Untitled from the portfolio Seventy-Eight Spells

1969 · One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Comp (irreg., approx.): 5 1/4 x 6 9/16" (13.4 x 16.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition (slightly irreg.): 27 11/16 × 20 1/2" (70.4 × 52.1 cm); sheet: 33 5/16 × 25" (84.6 × 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 18 1/8 × 15 1/16" (46 × 38.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 25 1/2 × 22" (64.8 × 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 28 3/8 × 23 11/16" (72.1 × 60.2 cm); sheet: 28 9/16 × 23 3/4" (72.5 × 60.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 27 9/16 × 22 1/16" (70 × 56.1 cm); sheet: 29 1/2 × 23 1/8" (75 × 58.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition (slightly irreg.): 19 1/2 × 15 7/8" (49.5 × 40.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/8 × 19 1/16" (63.8 × 48.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 12 1/16 × 10 1/16" (30.6 × 25.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 12 1/16 × 10" (30.6 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 25 9/16 × 22 1/16" (64.9 × 56 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 5 1/4 × 6 1/2" (13.3 × 16.5 cm); sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 13/16" (13.9 × 17.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Magus

1969 · Portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

various composition dimensions; sheet (each approx.): 12 3/16 × 10" (30.9 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (1)

59 published of 118 catalogued · 54 with image

MoMA
59 publishedof 118 catalogued54 img

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Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Collections1

Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Benrimo, Townley, Tyler: New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse

New York · 1955