The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 8, 2026

Four ink drawings on textured, off-white paper with deckled edges form a grid. On the top left, a black-bordered square contains irregular pooled shapes. Beside it, dense ink circles cluster into a square mass. The dark lower left form bleeds from a yellow-brown center with soft, feathered edges. At bottom right, teardrop-shaped marks splay out over a square gray wash, capturing the expressive, fluid behavior of ink across the grainy surface.

Untitled

1987–88

Jacqueline Humphries

(American, 1960-)
America
Four drawings
Gift in Memory of Toby Devan Lewis 2024.91
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Jacqueline Humphries has referred to her artistic practice as “my machine for thinking.”

Description

Jacqueline Humphries was one of a number of artists during the 1980s who worked to revive painting at a time when it had fallen out of favor in the New York art scene. This untitled set of drawings exemplifies the artist’s use of gestural forms to consider the legacy of Abstract Expressionist painting. Rather than improvisational brushstrokes, she presents carefully calculated and manipulated but organic forms.
  • Toby Devan Lewis [1934–2022], Cleveland, OH
    2022–24
    Estate of Toby Devan Lewis, Cleveland, OH
    2024
    Adam Joseph Lewis, Ivy Beth Lewis, and Mark C. Lewis, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    September 9, 2024–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2024.91