Hard Edge Painting: 1963-65
"Lavender Creed"
acrylic on canvas
52 x 96"
1964
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Hard Edge Painting: 1963-65
The images are a priori, symmetrically ordered and refined. They evoke an implacable, timeless presence, and a ponderous, aggressive sense of weight conveyed by large areas of black and dark grey and smaller contrasting white shapes that suggest compressed light.