The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Oil painting on two canvases flush together across which spans an larger-than-life closeup of a clamp, a tool with metal wrapping around a screw on our right and curling around and in on itself on the left. The metal is painted in greys with defined highlights on a neutral green-brown background.

Untitled

1964

Lee Lozano

(American, 1930–1999)
America
Oil on canvas
275.3 x 336.6 x 5.1 cm (108 3/8 x 132 1/2 x 2 in.)
Scott Mueller Collection 2.2021
© Lee Lozano
Location: 229B Contemporary

Did You Know?

This large-scale work is actually constructed of two canvas panels that sit flush together.

Description

The physicality and energy of this painting is characteristic of Lee Lozano's work in the early 1960s. During this period, she devoted many paintings and drawings to tools. As seen here, Lozano's tools have an anthropomorphic quality, expressing the artist's broader interest in the relationship between the body and the machine.
  • Contemporary Installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled|url=false|author=Lee Lozano|year=1964|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2.2021