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About the Artist: A native of the Ukraine, Louise Nevelson emigrated to Maine with her family in 1905. She studied at the Art Students League from 1929-30 and with Hans Hoffman (1880-1966) in Munich in 1931. In 1932, she worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera (1886-1957) in New York and later taught at the Educational Alliance School of Art.

In the 1940s, Nevelson began to explore the unconscious mind as a source of aesthetic inspiration. At first, she experimented with terra cotta forms constructed along a vertical axis. Painted black, the works were vaguely tote...