A new retrospective puts Lee Bontecou back in the limelight.

Mario Naves is an artist who writes about art. His criticism appears regularly in the New York Observer.

Images: Lee Bontecou in her Wooster Street studio, New York, 1963. Photograph by Ugo Mulas; Lee Bontecou in her Wooster Street studio, New York, 1963. Photograph by Ugo Mulas; Untitled, 1962. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift of D. & J. de Menil. Photograph courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Untitled, 1961. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase (61.41) © 1996: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements; Untitled, 1959/60. Collection of Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art. Photo credit: Will Brown, courtesy of Knoedler & Company, New York; Untitled, 1964. Honolulu Academy of Arts; purchase, 1968 (3545.1)l. Photograph courtesy of Museum of Modern Art; Untitled, 1970. Private collection, New York. Photo credit: Photograph by Christopher Burke; Untitled, c.1980-1998. © Lee Bontecou/courtesy of Knoedler & Company, New York. Photograph by Will Brown, courtesy of Knoedler & Company, New York. All rights reserved.