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The Four Seasons: Summer
1973 · color lithograph
Sheet: 76.2 x 56.8 cm (30 x 22 3/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Jean McEwen
Artist
WA-00028422
PaintingLyrical AbstractionColor FieldAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
7
Assets Indexed
1
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Canada '67
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
No image
Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962–1963
Field Verification (1 fields)
1 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Jean McEwen was a Canadian abstract painter whose large-scale canvases employed gestural mark-making and layered color fields to investigate light and surface luminosity. Working primarily in oil and acrylic from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive approach to non-representational painting that positioned him within postwar abstraction's dialogue between gesture and chromatic intensity. His work engaged with the formal concerns of Color Field painting while maintaining a tactile, physical relationship to the canvas surface.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Movement
Lyrical Abstraction
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Painting
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Artworks (3)
Artwork sources (2)
3 published of 5 catalogued · 2 with image
- MoMA2 publishedof 4 catalogued2 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1973 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Images
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4Collections1
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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