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Late Roman Painting: Burnt Green Earth Tint
1997 · oil on canvas
Unframed: 61.3 x 56 x 4.2 cm (24 1/8 x 22 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Marcia Hafif
American, 1929
WA-00031153
DrawingExpressionism
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
8
Works in Collection
14
Assets Indexed
3
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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New Art II: Surfaces/Textures
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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3 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Marcia Hafif was an American painter who developed a rigorous practice centered on monochromatic and near-monochromatic abstraction, working primarily with oils on canvas. Beginning in the 1970s, she pursued systematic investigations of color, texture, and the phenomenology of paint itself, creating works of austere formal discipline. Her paintings, often executed in barely perceptible tonal variations, demanded sustained looking and challenged conventional notions of composition and visual interest. Hafif's work engaged with post-war abstraction's legacy while resisting gestural expressionism in favor of methodical, material-focused inquiry.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Expressionism
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Artworks (8)
Artwork sources (4)
8 published of 11 catalogued · 9 with image
- MoMA3 publishedof 6 catalogued6 img
- Art Institute Chicago3 published3 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- Whitney1 published
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1 entries · 1 sources
- 1997 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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5Institutional
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Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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