"#1 - 1966"
Peter Young
American, born 1940
1966
A long, horizontal painting in synthetic polymer paint that lays out evenly spaced, pencil‑thin black lines and tiny numerals on a pale blue ground, asking the viewer to experience measurement, rhythm, and serial order across an extended surface.
What strikes you is the cool, expansive calm—thin, precise black rulings march across the canvas at steady intervals while small numbers at each end turn the field into a measured register rather than a traditional picture.
Made in 1966, the work exemplifies a turn away from expressive gesture toward serial systems and conceptual restraint, helping to open painting to ideas of measurement, process, and time central to Minimalism and conceptual art.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Dimensions
42 1/8" x 9' 8 5/8" (107 x 296.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
118.1975
Palette
Exhibitions
