Untitled
1977
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1977
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1977 graphite by Marcia Hafif, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This drawing shows a single leaf floating in empty space. The leaf is made of tiny pencil lines, packed so tightly they look like woven threads. The background is just a light, textured sheet of paper—no color, no extra shapes. The artist used a method called *cross-hatching* to build up the leaf’s form. Each line overlaps the last, creating shadow and depth without any shading. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists use lines to make 3D shapes.
Marcia Jean Hafif (née Woods; August 15, 1929 – April 17, 2018) was an American painter born in Pomona, California.
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