id: 318300 accession number: 2019.58 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.58 updated: 2025-06-15 11:01:35.649000 Blue Rational/Irrational, 1969. Al Loving (American, 1935–2005). Acrylic on canvas; 147 x 322.5 cm (57 7/8 x 126 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the KeyBank Collection, 2019.58. © The Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York title: Blue Rational/Irrational title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1969 creation date earliest: 1964 creation date latest: 1974 current location: 224A Contemporary Corridor creditline: Gift of the KeyBank Collection copyright: © The Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York --- culture: America technique: Acrylic on canvas department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Al Loving (American, 1935–2005) - artist --- measurements: 147 x 322.5 cm (57 7/8 x 126 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary Installation opening date: 2021-04-12T04:00:00 Contemporary Installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Alvin Loving: Paintings. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (December 19, 1969–January 25, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1969-12-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Frieze Masters. Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY (October 5 - October 9, 2016)', 'opening_date': '2016-10-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Collection of the artist date: 1969-? footnotes: citations: (KeyBank Collection, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: early 1990s-2019 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2019- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cochrane, Mary, ed. The Appropriate Object. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1989. page number: Mentioned: pp. 41- 49 url: Patel, Samir S, ed. Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2006. page number: 54-55 url: Cooke, Lynne, Douglas Crimp, et al. Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2018. page number: 96-97 url: Collection. "Building Blocks: A Look at Al Loving's Blue Rational/Irrational, 1969.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 18-19. page number: Reproduced: P. 19; Mentioned: P. 18-19. url: Yoder, Dean. “Hidden Complexities: The Conservation of Al Loving's Blue Rational/Irrational.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 36-37. page number: Reproduced: P. 36, 37: Mentioned: P. 4, 36-37. url: --- IMAGES