Description:
thinly painted image, dark ground with pattern of rows of round lights; abstract; transportation
Label Text:
A life-long resident of New York City, Loren MacIver turned to urban life for the subject of her abstract paintings. Here she creates a dream-like grid of glowing circles to evoke the pattern created by overhead vault lights that illuminate the inky darkness of a subway.
In the early 1900s, vault lights were built in twenty subway stations throughout New York (including the station pictured here in 1905) to allow natural light into the subterranean spaces.
In 1935 MacIver became the first female artist to have work acquired for the permanent collection of the newly opened Museum of Modern Art. In 1962 she represented the United States in the Venice Biennale, a prominent international exhibition of contemporary art.
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