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Mary Lovelace O’neal

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Spotlight: Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Posted: October 17, 2017
Category: Mary Lovelace O’neal
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A view of a gallery with white walls and a gray floor. A large canvas with colorful brushstrokes takes up almost the entire wall. On a gray background, brushstrokes in pink, red, blue, and brown take up half of the canvas, while the other half remains gray.