Sean ScullyAmerican, 1945Santa Barbara 22
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Santa Barbara 22” now? Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Painter and printmaker Sean Scully began his career in the 1960s as a proponent of Minimalism, an art movement that emphasized highly simplified linear and hard-edged geometric compositions that often concealed the artist’s hand. By the 1980s, Scully had become dissatisfied with the constraints of the cool, emotionally detached qualities of Minimalism, and sought a more lyrical and personally expressive approach. Building on the limited geometric vocabulary of his earlier work, Scully infused his later abstractions—like this monotype of 1987—with a looser, more gestural style that arose from a subtle manipulation of color, tone, texture, and the layering of forms. As a result, Scully’s abstractions took on a poetic tenor, a quality accentuated by Scully’s frequent use of place name titles.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Details
- Accession number
- 2015.120.8
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Sean Scully / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / IVARO, Ireland
