Minneapolis Institute of Art

Female Nude, Seen from Behind

John B. Flannagan

Date

c. 1930–39

Medium

Brush and brown ink on paper

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Fargo, North Dakota native John Flannagan attended the Minneapolis School of Art. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but he appreciated the immediacy of drawing and was a prolific draftsman. He tried to reduce forms to spare calligraphic lines. Here, the result bears the unmistakable imprint of Matisse. United States, Americas

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