Vine
Brice Marden
American, 1938–2023
1992-93
An eight-foot oil on linen in which Brice Marden lays continuous, calligraphic loops across a pale ground to turn a simple drawn gesture into a large, meditative field.
You’re led to trace a maze of sinuous, overlapping ribbons—thin bluish underlines and fuller gray‑black strokes—floating over a warm, scraped surface so that the picture feels both airy and insistently rhythmic.
Vine reconfigures minimalism’s restraint into a lyrical, process-driven language, making line itself the subject and helping push late‑20th‑century abstraction toward more organic, calligraphic modes.
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
8' x 8' 6 1/2" (243.8 x 260.4 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser
Accession
190.1996
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