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Lydia Dona's work has roots in formalism and abstract painting, but she strives for a multiplicity of readings. While responding to the masculine iconography of Pollock's drips, she simultaneously acknowledges a feminine point of view and notions of beauty.

Source: News, March April 2002.


DimensionsOverall: 72 × 68 in. (182.9 × 172.7 cm)
Accession Number 2001.32
Classificationspainting
ProvenanceArtist. Eileen Cohen, New York; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2001]
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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