While it is essentially abstract, Looking North F is based on the view from Dorothy Dehner's studio window at 41 Union Square in New York City. Like most of her sculptures, this bronze bas-relief emphasizes contours over mass. It is both flat and thin; seen from the side it looks like an irregular, vertical metal line.

Dehner made this sculpture using the lost wax technique, in which a mold is placed around shapes she fashioned out of wax. When the wax is heated, it melts and runs through holes that have been punched in the mold; it is then replaced by molten bronze. This process produces a unique solid bronze artwork, as the mold must be destroyed to retrieve the cast.

The numerous small shapes that make up this sculpture recall urban buildings, the sun, and a sense of the movement and sounds endemic to a busy downtown neighborhood. However, it could also suggest a more rural sort of landscape or even a stylized animal. The deliberate irregularity of Dehner's disks, ovals, and rectangles, their asymmetrically applied textures and rich, golden-coppery color give the sculpture a surprisingly warm, organic feeling.