Violet/Black Zone Study
Date1996
Artist
Robert Mangold
(American painter, born 1937)
MediumAcrylic and graphite on three attached sheets of paper
Dimensions30 × 66 7/8 in. (76.2 × 169.9 cm)
frame: 38 1/4 × 75 1/2 in. (97.2 × 191.8 cm)
frame: 38 1/4 × 75 1/2 in. (97.2 × 191.8 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-39
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRobert Mangold's work is characterized by subtle, and usually asymmetrically shaped canvases. In this drawing—a study for the large, shaped Zone paintings from the mid-1990s—a dark void interrupts the muted field and delicate lines, encouraging the viewer to complete the obstructed, graphite ellipses. Mangold cites influence from Stonehenge, narrative fresco painting from the early Renaissance, and Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman.
Thomas Willoughby Nason
1961
