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The Battle

Conrad Marca-Relli American

1956

Not on view

By the early 1950s Marca-Relli developed a technique of abstract collage, attaching biomorphically-shaped pieces of painted or dyed canvas to the surfaces of his pictures. While his fellow Abstract Expressionists in the Club on Eighth Street generally avoided representative subject matter in their work, Marca-Relli often evoked the tradition of Renaissance painting. In this work, he paraphrases the fifteenth-century painter Paolo Uccello's famous scenes commemorating Florence's victory over Siena in the Battle of San Romano in 1432, deliberately using a canvas of the same dimensions as those of the three Renaissance panels now found in the Louvre, the Uffizi, and the National Gallery, London.

The Battle, Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913–2000), Oil cloth, tinted canvas, enamel paint, and oil on canvas — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: The Battle

Artist: Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913–2000)

Date: 1956

Medium: Oil cloth, tinted canvas, enamel paint, and oil on canvas

Dimensions: 71 1/8 in. × 131 3/16 in. × 1 1/4 in. (180.7 × 333.2 × 3.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.203

Chronology

The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

American Painting in the Twentieth Century

American Painting in the Twentieth Century

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