Painting, Natura LXXX, United States by Robert Erickson

A single thin line comes down from above. Something dark hangs at the end of it.

Natura LXXX is a painting in oil and cold wax by Robert Erickson of the United States, signed, titled and dated on the back, 1995. Cold wax thickens oil paint so it can be built up and scraped, and the surface here has plenty of both. Tall, narrow abstract panels like this are made for collectors' walls, as pictures to think in front of. The ground is a mottled ochre, pitted and scratched. A hairline runs down the center to a black, bell-shaped form near the bottom. Twenty-six inches wide and 80 high.

It has been hanging there some time, and intends to continue.