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Accession #	86.200
Artist	Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Title	The Inversion
Date	1984
Medium	Oil on linen
Dimensions	60 × 100 in. (152.4 × 254 cm) frame: 63 × 103 × 4 1/4 in. (160 × 261.6 × 10.8 cm)
Signed	Top right of center: "S. P. M. 1984"
Credit Line	Gift of Henry, Cheryl, Daniel, Michael, and Willie Welt in memory of Abraham Joseph Welt
Location	Visible Storage: Case 16, Screen A (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: Sylvia Plimack Mangold\'s The Inversion is full of polarities: images compete with a void, geometry conflicts with nature, traditional landscape painting faces off against abstraction. The artist began The Inversion as a larger work, and it forms a narrative about the painting process: "The landscape originally stretched horizontally from left to right, side to side," she wrote. "I cropped it because it didn\'t work—the negation of some areas becomes a positive element in the support of the total picture." In other words, the void at the right is a kind of negative "inversion" of the positive landscape.