On gridded paper, three horizontally stretched, diamond-like shapes stack on top of each other. Finely drawn lines shoot out at diagonals and give the shapes dimension, like geometric craters folding in on each other.

Lenore G. Tawney

The Great Breath

1964

Not on view

6 works in the collection
1 exhibition

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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 17 in. (28.3 × 43.2 cm)

Accession number
2014.295

Credit line
Gift of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

API
artworks/46034

Exhibitions

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Nov 22, 2019–Feb 20, 2022

Installation photography

Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Lenore G. Tawney, The Great Breath, 1964; Chryssa, Untitled (March 26, 1962) from Newspaper Book, 1962. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn, Cloud Dance, 1979; Lenore G. Tawney, Four Petaled Flower II, 1974; Lenore G. Tawney, Spirit River, 1966; Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Lenore G. Tawney, The Great Breath, 1964; Chryssa, Untitled (March 26, 1962) from Newspaper Book, 1962; Peter Voulkos, Red River, c. 1960; Robert Rauschenberg, Yoicks, 1954; Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres), 1955, refabricated 1957-58. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: Anni Albers, Line Involvements II, 1964; Anni Albers, Line Involvements VI, 1964; Ann Wilson, Moby Dick, 1955; Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn, Cloud Dance, 1979; Lenore G. Tawney, Four Petaled Flower II, 1974; Lenore G. Tawney, Spirit River, 1966; Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Agnes Martin, Untitled, c. 1960; Lenore G. Tawney, The Great Breath, 1964. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019