The phrase "a work named" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific piece of art, literature, or any creative work that has a title.
Example: "In her essay, she discusses a work named 'The Great Gatsby' and its impact on American literature."
Alternatives: "a piece titled" or "a creation called".
Consider this: elsewhere in the gallery, MoMa exhibits a work named Champagne by the French artist Pierre Bonnard.
Each of those possibilities made sense in a work named after the famous series of gouache paintings made by Miró during the Second World War.
A feminist agenda – for a work named after a character who defies the wishes of her family to choose her husband, commits murder, and finally kills herself rather than wait to die of a broken heart like any right-minded gothic heroine?
"Gravity and Grace," a 2009 work named after a book by Simone Weil, is woven from silver caps that lift from the floor like a beaching whale.
For a public work named after a champion of liberty, the Kosciuszko Bridge has taken its share of prisoners over the years.
Stephen Montague, an American composer, allows her to break out into an expansive mode in "From the White Edge of Phrygia," a 1995 work named after its score.
This is the basic dramatic situation: a black playwright, in 2014, is somehow unable to move beyond a likeable 1859 work, named after a forgotten word once used to describe nonwhite people in the same terms as breeds of livestock.
The perspectives presented here are the results from an international work named Task40/Annex52 "Towards Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings" conducted within the framework of the International Energy Agency (SHC-EBC) and in particular from the sub-group working on Solution Sets and case studies.
One night he met a fellow at work named Ryan Crowne.
Now Wasser is preparing for the release of her third album, The Deep Field, a captivating and characteristically soulful work named after a distant part of space.
The work, named after a mechanical model of the solar system, is titled Orrery.
