Instructional poster titled "How to Look at a Spiral" with drawings, animals, people, and explanations about spirals.

Drawings

How to Look at a Spiral

1946

Medium
Collage, pen and ink, brush and ink, acrylic, and graphite pencil on board
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 7/16 × 12 5/16 in. (39.2 × 31.3 cm)
Accession number
76.49
Acquired
1976
Credit line
Gift of Rita Reinhardt
Reproduction credit
©Estate of Ad Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Department
collection

About this work

Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at a Spiral, 1946. Collage, pen and ink, brush and ink, acrylic, and graphite pencil on board, sheet: 15 7/16 × 12 5/16 in. (39.2 × 31.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Rita Reinhardt 76.49. ©Estate of Ad Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

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