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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Abstract oil painting with a fuzzy quality created by frenetic white and grey hashes speckling the canvas, blue occasionally showing through. Hazy multiples of a barely discernable figure in red and black paint spiral up from the center. An orange line cuts across the upper painting.

Vaulting

1986–87

Susan Rothenberg

(American, 1945–2020)
America
oil on canvas
Unframed: 229 x 336.5 cm (90 3/16 x 132 1/2 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1988.12
© Susan Rothenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: Not on view
  • “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75. Reproduced: p. 40; Mentioned: p. 70, no. 99 www.jstor.org
  • The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
    Serone Westwater. New York, NY. SW87.163.
  • {{cite web|title=Vaulting|url=false|author=Susan Rothenberg|year=1986–87|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1988.12