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Where Art Meets Math

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but viewers don’t need a background in math to appreciate the completed pieces. Other mathematical works and figures from across the Smithsonian are in the mix. 

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  • Painting - Law of Orbiting Velocities
  • Painting - Fluxions (Newton)
  • Painting - Mystic Hexagon (Pascal)
  • Painting -Construction of Heptagon
  • Painting - Every Positive Integer (Gauss)
  • Painting - Logarithms
  • Painting - Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes)
  • Painting - Morley Triangle
  • Agnes Denes Sun Mathematics
  • Homage to the Square--White Line-Black
  • Painting -Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler)
  • Painting - Numbers in a Spiral
  • Key Blue (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts)
  • Painting - Pencil of Ratios (Monge)
  • A painting with different sized squares layered on top of each other in orange and red tones Homage to the Square: Glow
  • Painting - Square Root of Two (Descartes)
  • Painting - Cross Ratio in an Ellipse (Poncelet)
  • Painting - Archimedes Transversal
  • Painting - Doubled Cube (Newton)
  • Painting - Aligned Triangles (Desargues)
  • Painting - Perspective (Alberti)
  • Honor Pythagoras, Per I--Per VI
  • Painting - Squares of a 3-4-5 Triangle in Scalene Perspective (Dürer)
  • Painting - Squared Circle

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