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Number 40

Forrest Bess · 1949

This is Number 40 — a painting by Bess, nineteen forty-nine. The piece is oil on canvas with wood frame, about 27 by 34 centimeters.

Medium Oil on canvas with wood frame · Dimensions 10 1/2 x 13 1/2" (26.7 x 34.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Betty Parsons

Hanging beside it in Gallery 407: Untitled, Untitled

More by Forrest Bess here: Untitled

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Built by Nancy Wang. This is an unofficial project and is not affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art.

Every room here is compiled from MoMA's own open data rather than modelled by hand: the floor plans are traced from the museum's published maps, the galleries carry their real numbers, and each work hangs where the collection says it hangs. The art, the wall labels and the dates all come from MoMA's CC0 release, so the museum you walk through is as close to the real one as public data allows.

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