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Dr. Sarah Eckhardt

About Dr. Sarah Eckhardt

Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art · Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials

Sari Dienes, Star Circle

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt and Dr. Steven Zucker

A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials

Sari Dienes, Star Circle

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt and Dr. Steven Zucker

Hedda Sterne, Number 3–1957, 1957, oil, spray paint on canvas, 86-1/8 x 50-1/4 inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, © The Hedda Sterne Foundation, Inc.) — Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways

Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt and Dr. Steven Zucker

Hedda Sterne, Number 3–1957, 1957, oil, spray paint on canvas, 86-1/8 x 50-1/4 inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, © The Hedda Sterne Foundation, Inc.) — Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways

Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt and Dr. Steven Zucker

Detail, Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians, 1967, collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 ½ inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — Bearden thought about painting like music.

Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians

by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, Dr. Leo G. Mazow and Dr. Steven Zucker

Detail, Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians, 1967, collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 ½ inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — An abstract painting, a collage, three musicians, two guitars and a banjo.

Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians

by Dr. Leo G. Mazow and Dr. Sarah Eckhardt