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Marcia Hafif

Green Lake Deep, 2009

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Description

Maker

  • Marcia Hafif, 1929-2018, American

Title

Green Lake Deep

Year

2009

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

55.9 x 55.9 cm (22 x 22 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of James Harris and Lisa Friedman in honor and memory of Madeline Parrasch

Object Number

2019.3

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

Green Lake Deep is from a series of works Hafif referred to as “Shade Paintings.” She described the series as an “experiment with adding a bit of black to any given color, producing a ‘shade’ rather than the ‘tint’ that would result with the addition of white.” The color green here achieves a heightened intensity—as well as the chromatic depth alluded to in the title—lending the work a still, contemplative quality. Hafif’s rigorous exploration of color was informed by her concentrated study of Renaissance art in Italy during the 1960s.

Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries

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