A large painting on canvas with a primarily yellow ground; its predominant imagery is an arrangement of ten frilled seashells, in black, that fill the compositional frame.

Black Venus

Philip Taaffe

1999

Titles Black Venus (Proper)
Artist Philip Taaffe, American, born 1955
Medium mixed media on canvas
Dimensions 85 x 113 in. (215.9 x 287 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Pauline Ireland in loving memory of her mother, Jeannette Adams Gates, AFI.184.2011
Work Type painting
Classification Paintings