"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR and notably

and notably

conventionalized form and equality between of positive and negative space as design elements

a variably inked impression due to a large fiber inclusion at lower left

with it's dark

"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR and notablyca. 1949 50, Ink and Crayon Resist, 11 x 12 7 8, signed in pencil verso, on stiff crream wove paper. This early piece, with it's dark, subterranean ground, earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms, relates strongly to Barrer's other mature paintings. As she embraced, personalized, then transcended Indian Space concerns for all over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form, Barrer infused her own hybred imagery with elements of