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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 - Every Positive Integer (Gauss)

Painting - Logarithms

Painting - Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes)

Painting - Morley Triangle

Painting -Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler)

Painting - Numbers in a Spiral

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 - Perspective (Alberti)

Honor Pythagoras, Per I--Per VI

Painting - Squares of a 3-4-5 Triangle in Scalene Perspective (Dürer)

Painting - Squared Circle

Painting - Cross-Ratio in a Conic (Poncelet)

Painting - Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes)

Painting - Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (Euclid)

Painting - Reciprocation

Painting - Pendulum Momentum (Galileo)

Painting - Measurement of the Earth (Eratosthenes)

Painting - One Surface and One Edge (Möbius)

Painting - Simple Equation (Descartes)

Painting - Multiplication through Imaginary Numbers (Gauss)

Painting - Duality (Pascal-Brianchon)

Painting - Bouquet of Triangle Theorems (Euclid)

Painting - Conic Curve (Apollonius)

Painting - Curve Tangents (Fermat)

Painting -Centers of Similitude (La Hire)

Painting - Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler)

Painting - Geometry of a Triple Bubble (Plateau)

Painting - Harmonic Series from a Quadrilateral (Pappus)

Painting - Velocity on Inclined Planes (Galileo)


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