Plate (folio 7 verso) from Beginning Being an Engine
2020 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen woodcuts
composition: 14 1/8 × 11" (35.8 × 28 cm); page (each): 15 × 11 15/16" (38.1 × 30.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Terry Winters
1949
WA-00000629
PaintingAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
271
Works in Collection
457
Assets Indexed
17
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
100%
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4 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Birth yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- Primary mediumWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge+1· 88%✓
- WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (4)
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Hauser-WirthTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Matthew-MarksTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Terry Winters makes paintings, drawings, and prints that treat abstraction as an investigation into systems, spatial fields, and the material act of mark-making itself. His compositions emerge from mathematical and cybernetic concepts as well as observation of natural and scientific phenomena, yielding forms that occupy an ambiguous space between pure abstraction and legible reference. Working in New York since the 1970s, Winters has consistently examined how painting can register both the physicality of the medium and invisible structural logics simultaneously.
Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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Abstract Art
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Artworks (271)
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Artwork sources (6)
271 published of 439 catalogued · 322 with image
- MoMA168 publishedof 336 catalogued234 img
- Tate72 published72 img
- Art Institute Chicago16 published16 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art7 published
- The Met7 published
- Whitney1 published
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17Peers & Context9
Movements1
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Pratt Institute
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High School of Art and Design
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