Artworks

Bruce Conner

Wax figure, suitcase, tin cans, shredded nylon, and other materials, in wood box · 1960

Tomonori Toyofuku

Wood on iron supports, finished with wax and pigment · 1960

Bruce Conner

Wax, nylon, cloth, metal, twine, and high chair · 1959

Luchita Hurtado

Wax crayon and watercolor on cream wove paper · 1958

Cy Twombly

Wood, wire, twine, nails, and house paint, with wax on fabric · 1953

Mariska Karasz

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, waxed cotton, cotton, jute, nylon, rayon, cellulose film and synthetic-covered cotton in open Cretan and simple looping stitches; couching · 1952

Hazel Janicki

Brush and black wash, bronze metallic paint and gouache, over colored wax crayons, on cream wove paper · 1951

Pavel Tchelitchew

Colored wax pencils on black wove paper · 1951

Martín Ramírez

Wax crayons, colored pencils, and watercolor over graphite on beige wove paper · 1950

Joseph Beuys

Glass, wood, and metal display case containing (left to right): Untitled, 1978: oil paint, stamp print, and baking mold, in two parts; Two Young Ladies with Luminous Bread (Zwei Fräulein mit leuchtendem Brot), 1966: typed paper and painted chocolate bar; Magnetic Waste (Magnetischer Abfall), 1975: cast iron; Zinc Box Covered with Sulfur (Tamponed Corner) (mit Schwefel überzogene Zinkkiste [tamponierte Ecke]), 1970: paint, zinc boxes, cloth with tampon, in two parts; Untitled (Nipple) (Ohne Titel [Brustwarze]), c. 1970: cast wax, felt, and sugar in glass jar; Untitled, c. 1964: felt, chalk, and hare fur; Corset (Corsett), 1949: bronze, fat, and wax; Untitled (Sugar Corner) (Ohne Titel [Zuckerecke]), 1967-68: hare bone, napkin, sugar, pieces of sulfur, and colored plastic cable, in cardboard box painted with watercolor; Untitled, 1982: ceramic cup and dried potato plant; Mirror Piece, 1975: cast ceramic containing potato; Untitled, 1974: chocolate and oil paint on shoebox lid · 1949

Victor Brauner

Wax figure with burr, seeds, pebbles, hair, and buckshot on painted wood in glass wood box · 1947

Raúl Lozza

Oil, alkyd, pine resin, wax, and acrylic on wood and metal wire · 1946

Sandu Darie

Gouache, ink, and wax on paper · 1946

Barnett Newman

Oil crayon and wax crayon on paper · 1944

Arshile Gorky

Wax crayons and colored crayon and graphite with scraping and incising, on ivory wove paper · 1943

Arthur Dove

wax emulsion on canvas · 1943

Henry Moore

Pen and brush and black ink, and brush and blue and gray washes, with white, black, yellow, and red crayon, with clear wax resist, over traces of graphite, squared in graphite on off-white wove paper · 1942

John Atherton

Waxed gouache on board · 1942

Henry Moore

Watercolor, and black and colored crayons, over white wax crayon and graphite, on cream wove paper · 1940

Henry Moore

Watercolor and black crayon, with blue pencil and pen and black ink, over white wax crayon and graphite, on ivory wove paper · 1939

Arthur Dove

Emulsion, oil, and wax on canvas · 1938

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Oil and wax on canvas · 1938

Knud Merrild

Gesso, wax, and pencil on paper · 1936

Knud Merrild

Watercolor, gesso, and wax on paper · 1936