No image

Descending Squares

Mary HeilmannWW-2018-168727

2018·Earthenware with glaze·Overall: 32 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 3/4 in. (82.6 × 34.3 × 1.9 cm)

<p>Mary Heilmann, <em>Descending Squares</em>, 2018. Earthenware with glaze, overall: 32 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 3/4 in. (82.6 × 34.3 × 1.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art 2021.46. ©Mary Heilmann</p>

Catalogue

Year: 2018
Medium: Earthenware with glaze
Dimensions: Overall: 32 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 3/4 in. (82.6 × 34.3 × 1.9 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Mary Heilmann

Artist

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

Full artist profile →