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Regional Work #2
- 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
- Catalogue Description: (a) panel with fish image; (b) panel with seascape
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.”
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