NEVELSON, Louise

NEVELSON, Louise (23 September 1899–17 April 1988). Nevelson's innovation was a sculptural image—more precisely, a rectangular relief, best viewed perpendicularly from the front. These reliefs are divided into smaller rectangular compartments containing miscellaneous scraps of wood, ranging from newel posts to pegs, sometimes including chair legs and other discarded wooden pieces and then painted entirely in a single color, usually black, sometimes white or gold. Though Nevelson did not change…