Tehachapi II

Mary Heilmann · 1979

Before you is Tehachapi two — a painting by the American artist Mary Heilmann, nineteen seventy-nine. Acrylic, a pigment suspended in plastic emulsion that dries in minutes and stays flexible afterwards. You can pick out the single colour field.

Medium Acrylic on canvas, two panels · Dimensions 48 × 72 × 2 1/2" (121.9 × 182.9 × 6.4 cm) · Credit Grace Rainey Rogers Fund (by exchange); Goldberg Contemporary Art Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 210: Study of a Baboon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: No. 37/No. 19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum), Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Blue Monochrome