Solar Centripetal Force (Inward) West

Alfred Jensen · 1961

Here we have Solar Centripetal Force (Inward) West — a painting by Alfred Jensen, nineteen sixty-one. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 64 x 48" (162.5 x 122 cm) · Credit Mary Sisler Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 407: Untitled

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Fabric Sample, The Jungle, Roots 1, Furnishing Fabric, Drapery Fabric, Blobs, Leaf

More by Alfred Jensen here: Solar Centrifugal Force (Outward) East, In-text plate (folio 12) from A Pythagorean Notebook, In-text plate (folio 19) from A Pythagorean Notebook, In-text plate (folio 18) from A Pythagorean Notebook