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MAM In Full Color

Our Collection Galleries, filled with vibrant hues, soft tones, and complementary color pairings, are sure to brighten your mood, no matter how you’re feeling.

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky once noted, “color is a power which directly influences the soul,” and science tells us it’s true—color can affect your mood, opinions, and even your behavior. Our Collection Galleries, filled with vibrant hues, soft tones, and complementary color pairings, are sure to brighten your mood, no matter how you’re feeling. Visit the Museum today to see all of these colorful artworks and so much more!

Pablo Picasso, *The Cock of the Liberation (Le Coq de la Liberation)*, 1944. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1959.372. Photo by Larry Sanders. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Colorful abstract art with a woman with dark hair in a blue dress and another in a yellow dress with wings — Reginald Baylor, *On Duty, Not Driving*, 2010. Acrylic on canvas. Purchase, with funds from the African American Art Alliance in honor of their twentieth anniversary M2011.16. Photo by John R. Glembin. © Reginald Baylor.

Pink square — Kenneth Noland, *Merry Hill*, 1970. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1970.59. Photo by John R. Glembin. © Estate of Kenneth Noland/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Colorful recreation of a Campbell's soup can — Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987), *Campbell’s Soup*, 1965. Acrylic on canvas. 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm). Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1977.156. Photo by Efraim Lev-er. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Cobblestone sidewalk between trees and a building — Henri Edmond Cross, *Landscape (Garden at St. Tropez)*, ca. 1900. Oil on canvas. Purchase, Marjorie Tiefenthaler Bequest and Partial Gift of the Louise Uihlein Snell Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation M1996.29. Photo by Larry Sanders.

Large squares with red, yellow, and blue — Ellsworth Kelly, *Red, Yellow, Blue II*, 1965. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1977.113a-c. Photo by Malcolm Varon. © Ellsworth Kelly.

Helen Frankenthaler, *Almond*, 1968. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1975.136. © 2010 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jaime Hayon, *Afrikando*, 2017. Glass. Purchase with funds from the Jill and Jack Pelisek Endowment Fund, the Sanford J. Ettinger Memorial Fund, and by exchange M2017.23.1–.7. Photo by John R. Glembin.

Colorful village with water in the foreground — Gabriele Münter (German, 1877–1962), *In Schwabing*, 1912. Oil on canvas. 26 7/8 × 19 7/8 × 1/8 in. (68.26 × 50.48 × 0.24 cm). Framed: 34 3/8 × 27 5/16 × 1 5/8 in. (87.31 × 69.37 × 4.13 cm). Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1975.152. Photo by P. Richard Eells. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Square with dark green on top and red on bottom with a blue border — Mark Rothko (American, b. Russia, 1903–1970), *Green, Red, Blue*, 1955. Oil on canvas. 81 1/2 × 77 3/4 in. (207.01 × 197.49 cm). Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1977.140. Photo by P. Richard Eells. © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Abstract art with squares inside squares in different colors — Josef Albers, *Study for Homage to the Square: Lighted from Within*, 1957. Oil on masonite. Gift of Anni Albers and the Josef Albers Foundation, Inc. M1981.76. Photo by John R. Glembin. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Multi-colored flowers overflowing in vase — Jan van Os, *Flowers in Terra-cotta Vase*, after 1780. Oil on panel. Layton Art Collection Inc., Gift of Frederick Layton. Photo by John R. Glembin.

Abstract art with pastel shapes — Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993), *Ocean Park No. 16*, 1968. Oil on canvas. 93 × 76 in. (236.22 × 193.04 cm). Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit M1974.218. Photo by Diebenkorn Foundation. © Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Orbs varying in the color spectrum from black to white — Olafur Eliasson (Danish and Icelandic, b. 1967), *Rainbow Bridge*, 2017. Painted and mirrored glass with powder-coated steel. 66 9/16 × 195 1/4 × 19 11/16 in. (169 × 496 × 50 cm). Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Art Society, Jeffrey Yabuki, Donna and Donald Baumgartner, Sue and Bud Selig, Herzfeld Foundation, Steve and Janice Marcus, Ken and Kate Muth, Flavius Cucu and Miriam Van de Sype, Jason and McKenzie Edmonds, Tim and Sue Frautschi, Lincoln and Lilith Fowler, Mark and Judy Garber, Michael and Jennifer Keough, Joan Lubar and John Crouch, Justin and Susanna Mortara, Buddy and Catherine Robinson, Christine Symchych and James McNulty, and friends of the Contemporary Art Society M2017.126. Photo by John R. Glembin

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Love them all, but the two Diebenkorn’s in the collection are my favorite.

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