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Dorothy Dehner
Looking North F, 1964
This sculpture was inspired by the view from Dehner's studio at 41 Union Square in New York City. Its shapes recall buildings, traffic lights, and the rapid movement that characterizes a busy urban neighborhood. For nearly three decades -- and throughout her marriage to abstract expressionist sculptor David Smith -- Dehner painted naturalistic images. After creating her first abstract sculpture in the 1950s, she developed a style that emphasized clean contours and precise patterns over mass. |