Hollis Taggart
ALice Baber
Five Mile Robe
Oil on canvas
1972
78 x 57 1/2 in. (198.1 x 146.1 cm)
description
Post-war feminist artist Alice Baber is known for her abstract expressionist paintings that radiate pure, translucent colors. Employing a technique of pouring thinned oil paint onto a canvas and controlling the variations with dry or turpentine-moistened cloth and precise timing, she created sensuous interplays of different tones and hues, as in “Five Mile Robe” (1972).