Robert Mangold

I’m never sure how I got into doing the circle paintings. One story I tell, . . . Sylvia [Plimack Mangold] and I spent a summer at Al Held’s farm in Boiceville, New York. . . . I was sitting there looking at curved hills and I started doing some funny kind of landscape works that had a slightly atmospheric rectangular top and then a curved bottom. I think it may have come from that summer where I was just looking at that space in nature, but when I got back to the city I started working with a compass curve, in a sense, and did a series of paintings that were parts of circles, a half-circle broken in different ways. -Robert Mangold