Small Flower Painting V

1968

Not on view

Brainard once said, "I've never really been a Pop artist; I was in Pop Art shows." On the surface, the imagery in this work and its flat, colorful, frontal presentation is in keeping with a Pop Art sensibility and relates to Andy Warhol's much larger flower pictures from the 1960s. However, the intimate nature of this small work and the intensely personal, often autobiographical meanings of much of Brainard's images differentiate them from Pop Art.

Artwork Details

Object Information

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Exhibition History

Title: Small Flower Painting V
Artist: Joe Brainard (American, Salem, Arkansas 1942–1994 New York)
Date: 1968
Medium: Cut and torn pasted papers and printed papers, fabric, pen and black ink, colored inks and markers on paper
Dimensions: 6 1/16 × 4 1/8 in. (15.4 × 10.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Posthorn, in memory of the artist, 1997
Object Number: 1997.404.25
Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Joe Brainard
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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