Carmen Herrera

From her studies in architecture, in Cuba in the 1930s, Carmen Herrera developed a love for drawing straight lines. After moving to the US and having switched to painting she embraced a form of geometric abstraction based primarily on rectangles and triangles. This rare drawing from the 1960s belongs to a small group of studies for sculptures Herrera called "wall structures," in which thin triangular wedges are cut through a rectangle-- a type of composition she had explored in a series of paintings entitled Blanco y Verde. The sculpture related to this drawing was only fabricated in 2016, after the artist finally achieved recognition, late in life.