Untitled

Untitled

William Leavitt

1991

pastel

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting shows a single car from the front, glowing with a pale blue-green hood. The headlights are bright circles, and the rest of the car is dark, almost shadowy. The background is a smudgy nighttime street with a streetlamp and faint buildings. The artist used soft, smudged lines to make the car look almost like a sketch. The colors are simple but stand out—especially that bright hood. Want to see more work like this? Check out pastel as a medium.

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