in it seems to recall Malevich's aerodynamic phase, and one blue square with a white-and-yellow rectangular strip above brings the final puritan, transcendental phase of Supremati to mind. If Diller is more playful than Albers, however, he's more nervous than Malevich. The nervousness shows up in the pencil lines that often appear as gestural background. Sometimes delicate, sometimes urgent, and always somber, they add a note of tentativeness to the work, which somehow saves the geometry from sterility. They give it a lively aura, suggesting that it may be secretly alive, and might even have a personality, at least latently." Legacy "Burgoyne Diller's work testifies not only to his versatility as an artist, but also to his unique ability to personalize the international language of Neo-Plasticism and instill his simplified geometric compositions with emotion, spirituality, and a sense of the heroic.” "Diller will always be remembered as one of the most significant artists devoted to geometric abstraction, and a true pioneer of American modernism." Philip Larson notes that "Diller's work serves as a vital link between American abstraction of the 1930s and minimalism of the 1950s and 1960s epitomized by artists Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly and Myron Stout." After his death, he left behind a significant body of work that includes paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures. Over the years his work has been exhibited internationally, most notably by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1990. His work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. Collections Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC) Hyde Collection (Glens Falls, NY) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) References and sources References Sources Barbara Haskell; Burgoyne Diller; Whitney Museum of American Art. Burgoyne Diller (New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990) ; Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Pasadena Art Museum. Burgoyne Diller, an American constructivist: paintings, sculptures, drawings. Exhibition, Walker Art Center, 12 Dec. 1971 - 16 Jan. 1972; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 16 Feb. - 26 Mar. 1972; Pasadena Art Museum, 9 May - 2 July 1972. (Minneapolis, 1971) OCLC 38719365 External links Askart.com's info summary page on Burgoyne Diller Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art: interview with Burgoyne Diller American Abstract Artists