Untitled
Lorser Feitelson
American, 1898–1978
May 31, 1964
An oil and enamel on canvas in which Feitelson aligns curving, hard-edged bands into a narrow vertical seam to explore how color, contour, and contrast produce spatial and optical tension.
Your eye is immediately caught by a jewel-like ribbon of thin, bright stripes down the center that separates a soft, rounded pale field on the left from deep purple and black on the right, the edges so clean they feel both mechanical and bodily.
A key work of West Coast hard-edge abstraction, it offers a cool, precise alternative to gestural Abstract Expressionism and helped shape later developments in Color Field painting and Minimalism.
Medium
Oil and enamel on canvas
Dimensions
60 1/8 x 50 1/8" (152.9 x 127.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Craig Ellwood
Accession
766.1965
Palette
Exhibitions
