Lenore G. Tawney

The Great Breath
1964

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.

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.

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Date
1964

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink on paper

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

Accession number
2014.295

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

API
artworks/46034

Exhibitions

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Nov 22, 2019–Feb 20, 2022

Lenore G. Tawney
6 works in the collection

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