Collections: Contemporary Art: Floor with Laundry No. 3

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Floor with Laundry No. 3

Although now known primarily as a landscape painter, Sylvia Plimack Mangold engaged in the realistic depiction of domestic interiors until the mid-1970s. In this painting she painstakingly describes the geometry created by a patterned parquet floor strewn with articles of clothing. Using exaggerated perspective, the artist leads us into the depth of space, implying the large scale of the room. In contrast to the elaborately set up interiors that were the subject of paintings through the nineteenth century, Mangold presents a segment of a modern household where everyone is rushing, and tidying up is the last thing on anyone's mind.

• Artist: Sylvia Plimack Mangold, American, born 1938
• Medium: Acrylic and pencil on canvas
• Place Made: USA
• Dates: 1971
• Dimensions: 44 x 56 in. (111.8 x 142.2cm)
• Collections: Contemporary Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Everyday Life/A Nation Divided, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 1993.213
• Credit Line: Gift of Ivan and Sharon Koota in memory of Miriam Miller
• Copyright: © Sylvia Plimack Mangold
• Image: Overall, 1993.213_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Sylvia Plimack Mangold (American, born 1938). Floor with Laundry No. 3, 1971. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 44 x 56 in. (111.8 x 142.2cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ivan and Sharon Koota in memory of Miriam Miller, 1993.213 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1993.213_bw.jpg)