Collections: Contemporary Art: Regional Work #2

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Regional Work #2

Regional Work #2 is from a series of diptychs called Regional Pieces done by the artist in 1976. Here one panel depicts a seascape of dark purples, and the other a fish immersed in the same purple waters. Each panel is framed by drapery made of brightly painted Celastic, a clothlike material, giving the impression of viewing the image through a window (one above the sea line and the other below, looking directly into the ocean). Writing about her work, Morton referred to “the responsibility of the artist . . . to be free, and while in that freedom, to look, and to see while looking, and to feel, and to respond while feeling, and to be romantic, and to love the romance.”


• Artist: Ree Morton, American, 1936-1977
• Medium: Oil on wood with celastic
• Dates: 1976
• Dimensions: Overall: 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm) (a) Panel with fish: 18 1/2 x 49 3/4 in. (47 x 126.4 cm) (b) Panel with seascape: 17 x 50 in. (43.2 x 127 cm)
• Signature: Unsigned
• Collections: Contemporary Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 88.34a-b
• Credit Line: Gift of the estate of Ree Morton
• Image: Overall, 88.34a-b_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Ree Morton (American, 1936-1977). Regional Work #2, 1976. Oil on wood with celastic, Overall: 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm) (a) Panel with fish: 18 1/2 x 49 3/4 in. (47 x 126.4 cm) (b) Panel with seascape: 17 x 50 in. (43.2 x 127 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the estate of Ree Morton, 88.34a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.34a-b_SL1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: (a) panel with fish image; (b) panel with seascape