HOWARDENA PINDELL (1943 - ) Untitled (#72).

HOWARDENA PINDELL (1943 - )
Untitled (#72).

Acrylic, watercolor, punched graph papers and computer tape, 1975. Approximately 241x191 mm; 9½x7½ inches; 362x286x13 mm; 14¼x11¼x½ inches (including the Plexiglass box). Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: Stanley Poler, Inc., New York, with the gallery address label on the mount back; private collection, New York, with hand-written labels on the mount back.

This punched paper assemblage is a colorful and early example of the Howardena Pindell's important work in this innovative medium. Several other examples of this series, including Untitled #69, were included in the artist's 2018 traveling retrospective, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, curated by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver, organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.