Joaquín Torres-García 1934: Locomotive with Constructive House

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (Torres-García: Locomotive with Constructive House)

Joaquín Torres-García 1934: Locomotive with Constructive House
Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) Locomotora con casa constructiva (Locomotive with Constructive House), 1934 Oil on canvas © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Spain.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Source: Newark Museum.

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1874, Joaquín Torres-García spent much of his early adulthood in France and Spain sampling European modernism, taking particular interest in the abstract geometric styles associated with utopian movements like Russian Constructivism and Dutch Neo-Plasticism. Source: The New York Times, Art & Design

Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s
The first exhibition (Newark Museum) to bring together South American and US geometric abstraction.
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s features more than 90 works by 70 artists from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Following its premiere at the Newark Museum, Constructive Spirit will travel to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, where it will be on view June 26 through September 5, 2010.