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Deborah Remington

American, 1930–2010

WA-00042504

Mixed Media

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None documented

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WikidataQ5248361

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Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
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LocationArtsy· 85%

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Bortolamihttps://www.artsy.net/artist/deborah-remington
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/deborah-remington
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

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Deborah Remington was an American hard-edge abstract painter whose work combined geometric precision with luminous color fields. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, her compositions feature sharply defined planes of saturated hue that create optical vibration without narrative or representational reference. Based in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Remington developed a distinctive approach to abstraction that emphasized the material properties of paint and the perceptual effects of color interaction. She was represented by Bortolami.

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Artworks (9)

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Quadra

1989 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Quadra

1985 · graphite and pastel

Cleveland Museum of Art

Pitt

1973 · Oil on canvas

50.8 × 45.7 cm (20 × 18 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled Sketchbook [Working Study for Soot Series]

1969 · Sketchbook with drawings in graphite, pen and black ink, red and black colored pencil, and red crayon, with collaged elements and touches of paint

Open: 52.1 × 17.8 cm (20 1/2 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1968 · Color lithograph on ivory wove paper

Sheet: 71.6 × 51.1 cm (28 1/4 × 20 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sketchbook

1965 · Sketchbook with drawings in graphite, pen and black ink, and red and orange colored pencil, with touches of paint

Open: 35.6 × 55.9 cm (14 × 22 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Soot Series #1

1963 · Soot and red crayon on muslin

52.8 × 43.2 cm (20 3/4 × 17 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Conservatory Jazz

1955 · color lithograph

Sheet: 56.2 x 76.3 cm (22 1/8 x 30 1/16 in.); Image: 35.6 x 54.1 cm (14 x 21 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Fast Company

1954 · color lithograph

Sheet: 44.3 x 63.5 cm (17 7/16 x 25 in.); Image: 54.5 x 38 cm (21 7/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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9 published of 12 catalogued · 5 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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4 entries · 1 sources

Quadra
1985 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Quadra
1989 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Fast Company
1954 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Conservatory Jazz
1955 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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The University of the Arts

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San Francisco Art Institute

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