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Division of a One-by-Two Rectangle by Conic Rectangles | Similar Triangles | Transcendental Curve | Heptagon from Its Seven Sides | Squared Circle | A Construction for the Heptagon | Relativity of Time and Space | Right Triangle, Golden Rectangle and Pythagorean Star | Problem of Delos | Fraction of Pi (to .0000003...) in a Square of One | Projections of Aligned Triangles | Square Divided by Conic Rectangles
During the last decade of his life (1965-1975), Crockett Johnson devoted his time to creating abstract geometrical paintings, all of them based on mathematical theorems. According to his article "On the Mathematics of Geometry in My Abstract Paintings" (1972), Johnson began this work in 1961 "upon belatedly discovering aesthetic values in the Pythagorean right triangle and Euclidian geometry" (97). In all, he painted as many as 100 canvases, at least 60 of which are held by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Division of Information Technology and Society. Of the remaining paintings, some are privately held and others have been lost.
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In December of 1999, I noticed the above two at The Modhaus ("an online gallery of unique furnishings and decorative artifacts from the 1950s-1970s"). I had linked to both paintings (Projections of Aligned Triangles and Square Divided by Conic Rectangles ); however, since both are no longer visible at the Modhaus site, you can instead see them above.
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