Painting - <I>Morley Triangle</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1969
name: label: painter
content: Johnson, Crockett
notes: label: Description
content: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. This oil painting, #74 in the series, dates from 1969 and is signed "CJ69." It is based on a theorem in plane geometry proved by the English-born mathematician Frank Morley (1860–1937). Morley emigrated to the United States and taught at Haverford College and Johns Hopkins University.
label: Description
content: The painting illustrates his best-known result. It shows lines that divide the three angles of the large triangle into three equal parts. Lines coming from different vertices of the triangle meet in points. The triangle formed by joining the intersections of the trisectors, which lie nearest to the three sides of the triangle, is shown in white in the painting. According to Morley's theorem, this is an equilateral triangle.
topic: label: Subject
content: Immigration
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Crockett Johnson
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content: Art
label: Exhibition
content: NMAH Board Room Entry
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Krauss in memory of Crockett Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1093.48
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1093.48
label: accession number
content: 1979.1093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 61 cm x 64.3 cm x 3.5 cm; 24 in x 25 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in