Floor 4: Elizabeth Murray & Joan Mitchell: Touch object for Things to Come
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Wall Text
1988
Oil on canvas
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1988
As in My Manhattan, January, on view nearby, this work features a central circular opening from which cartoonish drops flow. Here, however, the surface is a complex, multipart form that bulges out and loops back on itself. To prepare the canvases for works like Things to Come, Murray first sketched her ideas, then modeled them in clay, then translated them into full-scale drawings from which assistants built the shaped wooden supports. Such works blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The artist noted: “They’re really paintings, but I think that they do transgress—they’re transgressors into space.”