Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in excerpt
  • Contact Us
Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in excerpt
  • Home
  • Visit
    • Plan Your Visit
    • Buy Tickets
    • How We Display
  • Collections
    • Search Collection Highlights
    • International Decorative Art
    • Colorado & Regional Art
    • Vance Kirkland
    • Collections FAQ
  • Exhibitions & Events
    • Exhibitions
    • Events
    • Loans
  • Join & Support
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
  • Museum Store
  • Architecture
    • About Our Building
    • Kirkland Studio
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founders
    • Press
    • Contact Us
    • Jobs & Internships

Vance Kirkland

  • Vance Kirkland Works
  • About Vance Kirkland

Sort By Period

  • Collection Highlights
  • I. Designed Realism
  • II. Surrealism
  • III. Hard Edge Abstraction
  • IV. Abstract Expressionism
  • V. The Dot Paintings
Explosions on a Sun 70 Billion Light Years from Earth

Explosions on a Sun 70 Billion Light Years from Earth

Year 1979

Artist Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Media oil paint & water on linen

Dimensions 55 x 66 inches

V. Dot Paintings; F. “Energy of Forms in Space”. Dedicated to Gio Ponti, who died that year.

Not currently on view

Signature Signed "Kirkland 1979 (25)" lower right corner

Credit Line Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Accession Number VK1979.25

Other V. The Dot Paintings works

Conception of Space Mysteries

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Conception of Space Mysteries

Explosions on a Sun 70 Billion Light Years from Earth

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Explosions on a Sun 70 Billion Light Years from Earth

Four Suns in Space

Vance Kirkland (1904–1981, American)

Four Suns in Space

The Energy of Explosions Twenty-Four Billion Years B.C.

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

The Energy of Explosions Twenty-Four Billion Years B.C.

Invasion of Mysteries near Scorpio

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Invasion of Mysteries near Scorpio

Concerning Scorpio Ten Billion Years B.C.

Vance Kirkland (1904–1981, American)

Concerning Scorpio Ten Billion Years B.C.

Red on Blue

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Red on Blue

Yellow Vibrations on Grey Mysteries in Space

Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Yellow Vibrations on Grey Mysteries in Space

  • Home
  • Visit
    • Plan Your Visit
    • Buy Tickets
    • How We Display
  • Collections
    • Search Collection Highlights
    • International Decorative Art
    • Colorado & Regional Art
    • Vance Kirkland
    • Collections FAQ
  • Exhibitions & Events
    • Exhibitions
    • Events
    • Loans
  • Join & Support
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
  • Museum Store
  • Architecture
    • About Our Building
    • Kirkland Studio
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founders
    • Press
    • Contact Us
    • Jobs & Internships
  • Home
  • Visit
    • Plan Your Visit
    • Buy Tickets
    • How We Display
  • Collections
    • Search Collection Highlights
    • International Decorative Art
    • Colorado & Regional Art
    • Vance Kirkland
    • Collections FAQ
  • Exhibitions & Events
    • Exhibitions
    • Events
    • Loans
  • Join & Support
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
  • Museum Store
  • Architecture
    • About Our Building
    • Kirkland Studio
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founders
    • Press
    • Contact Us
    • Jobs & Internships