Stratus

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Abstract color field painting.

Nancy Graves
b. 1939 Pittsfield, MA; d. 1995 New York, NY
Stratus, 1977
Oil and encaustic on canvas
71 x 53 inches
Accession date: 2001
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gurrentz
© Nancy Graves Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Graves created art comprised of an intersection between art and the natural sciences, abstraction and representation, nature and artificiality. For example, she traced the weather and moon maps made by NASA and then reduced them to the  most basic patterns and so became her linear, abstract paintings as seen here.