“Swamp Cabbage” is one of Ree Morton’s many works with text derived from “Wild Flowers Worth Knowing,” a 1917 text by Neltje Blanchan. Morton’s drawings are often characterized by their de-skilled aesthetic and an illustrative, storybook quality that borders on pop, though she was very much aware of the minimalist art movement and its predominance in art of the 1970s. In Swamp Cabbage, one can see Morton’s strategic contrast between the image of femininity signified by the flower, swamp cabbage, and the text describing the “flies” and the “foul smell” of the swamp.
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Image: Ree Morton, “Swamp Cabbage”, 1974. Crayon and color pencil on paper, 29 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches. LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT. © Estate of Ree Morton. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York. Photograph by ...