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Untitled from The Tower of Terror Studies

Untitled from The Tower of Terror Studies

Cady Noland
American, born 1956
1994
A precise pencil study on translucent drafting paper in which Noland maps out a measured arrangement of horizontal rails and evenly spaced circular posts, proposing a barricade‑like structure.
Its spare, architectural lines and repeated circular nodes read like an industrial schematic, while the artist's penciled measurements, notes, and torn paper edges give it a work‑in‑progress, forensic presence.
Part of Noland's investigation into structures of control and American spectacle, this study makes visible her process and helped translate architectural, diagrammatic drawing into the language of conceptual installation art.
Medium
Pencil on transparentized paper
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 16 3/4" (35.9 x 42.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
2546.2005.6
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