Looking and Making a Painting

A painting with a largely blank surface. Between the center and the upper right, an area roughly enclosed in thin, tan masking tape contains an image resembling a snowy landscape seen through a gridded window. A low fence appears in the middle ground and a mountain and blue sky in the distance.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold, January 1977, 1977. Acrylic on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, B.F.A. 1961, and Robert Mangold, B.F.A. 1961, M.F.A. 1963, in memory of their son Andrew Mangold. © Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Join Clara Poteet, the John Walsh Fellow in Museum Education, for a Gallery Talk addressing two works of contemporary art in the collection: an untitled painting by Kerry James Marshall and January 1977 by Sylvia Plimack Mangold, B.F.A. 1961. The talk explores how Marshall and Mangold paint the act of painting, thereby playing with art-historical notions of genre and inviting the viewer into a surprising encounter.