Highlights in the latest group of purchases include Audrey Flack's
monumental photorealist painting World War II (Vanitas)(1976 - 77); Unraveling (2017) by Sonya Clark, which will be performed at PAFA on November 4; a sketchbook with drawings by Linda Kramer; and two mixed media print investigations into interior space from 2016 by Mickalene Thomas.
Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract
paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract
paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11
Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe
paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five
monumental mixed - media
paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).