Untitled
<p>Louise Fishman, <em>Untitled</em>, 1970. Acrylic and pastel on canvas, overall: 66 × 51 in. (167.6 × 129.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Carol A. Calhoun P.2023.2</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1970
- Dimensions
- Overall: 66 × 51 in. (167.6 × 129.5 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Louise Fishman
Artist

Painting
Louise Fishman was an American abstract painter whose gestural, color-saturated canvases evolved from lyrical abstraction through to bold geometric compositions across five decades. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, her practice engaged with the legacy of postwar abstraction while maintaining a distinctive approach to surface, mark-making, and chromatic intensity. Her work addressed both the formal possibilities of painting and, increasingly in later decades, personal and political identity within the context of lesbian feminism and queer aesthetics.
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- Louise Fishman
- Year
- 1970
- Dimensions
- Overall: 66 × 51 in. (167.6 × 129.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1970-167860
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified

