Louise Nevelson, Finding Her Way

The Washington Post | October 7, 2004| | Copyright

You know her work when you see it, and you see it in nearly every 20th-century collection: the imposing wall of stacked boxes washed entirely in matte black paint, each box entombing cracked wood spindles, newel posts, perhaps a small cabinet door. The effect is off-putting and aggressive, like a bank of amplifiers at a rock concert. Sepulchral, architectural and ever recognizable: It's a Louise Nevelson, all right.

Yet Nevelson didn't hit her artistic stride until she was well into her fifties. (She died in 1988 at age 88, though some sources report her a year younger.) That leaves 30 years ...

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