Tehachapi II

Tehachapi II

Mary HeilmannWW-1979-M113870
1979·Acrylic on canvas, two panels·48 × 72 × 2 1/2" (121.9 × 182.9 × 6.4 cm)

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Year
1979
Dimensions
48 × 72 × 2 1/2" (121.9 × 182.9 × 6.4 cm)

Artist

Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann

Painting

Mary Heilmann is an American painter working in abstraction since the 1970s, known for her gestural use of color and informal compositional strategies that reference both modernist painting and vernacular sources. Her work combines expressive brushwork with a material sensibility rooted in post-war abstraction, often drawing on everyday imagery and the visual language of domestic and natural spaces. Heilmann's paintings resist the rhetoric of systematic abstraction in favor of a more intuitive and personal approach to color relationships and mark-making.

New York, NY, USA

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Year
1979
Dimensions
48 × 72 × 2 1/2" (121.9 × 182.9 × 6.4 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1979-M113870

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moma
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Artist

Mary Heilmann

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