Untitled (Tripod with Drip)

Jay DeFeo (American, 1929-1989) is known for her unconventional usage of materials and intensive, physical method of artmaking. While much scholarship has focused on her monumental painting The Rose created over an eight-year period (1958-1966), DeFeo produced a varied and compelling body of work over the course of her career that includes drawings, collage, and photographs. This drawing is from a period in the mid-1970s during which DeFeo depicted in a variety of media the tripod she used to make her photographs. She was intrigued by the visual and transformational possibilities of the tripod, especially its anthropomorphic qualities. DeFeo was inspired to begin the Tripod Series after draping materials over the object, like a person wearing clothes.