Sky City I

Louise Nevelson is best known for her wall pieces constructed of boxes filled with found wooden forms. They are almost always painted in a single color, which further draws the objects together into a unified whole and imbues them with an aura of mystery. Nevelson began exploring this type of construction in the 1940s, working primarily with found objects as assemblage. In 1957, the artist received a box of wine as a holiday gift. Its partitioned compartments inspired a structural basis for her mature artwork. Nevelson worked intuitively and spontaneously, stacking the boxes of found objects in an entirely novel approach to sculpture.