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Hollis Taggart

ALice Baber

Five Mile Robe

Oil on canvas

1972

78 x 57 1/2 in. (198.1 x 146.1 cm)

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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).