Catapult
Judith Godwin
American, 1930–2021
1990
A lively, improvisational composition in synthetic polymer paint and colored pencil that flings graceful arcs, splatters, and crossed brushstrokes across a wide sheet of paper, invoking the momentum suggested by its title, Catapult.
What strikes you is the sweeping arc that dominates the page—soft washes of blue and lavender intersected by bold black Xs, scraped textures and white dabbed accents—so the paper reads like a sky caught mid-motion.
Godwin translates the scale and spontaneity of postwar gestural painting into drawing, blurring the line between painting and paper-based work and contributing to late 20th‑century experiments with color, movement, and surface.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint and colored pencil on paper
Dimensions
26 1/4 x 39 3/4" (66.7 x 101 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1736.2005
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