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72., March 1965

Marcia HafifWW-1965-173482

1965·Acrylic on canvas·Overall: 55 1/8 × 55 1/8 in. (140 × 140 cm)

<p>Marcia Hafif, <em>72., March 1965</em>, 1965. Acrylic on canvas, overall: 55 1/8 × 55 1/8 in. (140 × 140 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Beth Rudin DeWoody 2025.179</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1965
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 55 1/8 × 55 1/8 in. (140 × 140 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Marcia Hafif

Artist

Marcia Hafif

Drawing

Marcia Hafif was an American painter who developed a rigorous practice centered on monochromatic and near-monochromatic abstraction, working primarily with oils on canvas. Beginning in the 1970s, she pursued systematic investigations of color, texture, and the phenomenology of paint itself, creating works of austere formal discipline. Her paintings, often executed in barely perceptible tonal variations, demanded sustained looking and challenged conventional notions of composition and visual interest. Hafif's work engaged with post-war abstraction's legacy while resisting gestural expressionism in favor of methodical, material-focused inquiry.

Pomona, United States

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