From the Archives: Lee Bontecou—Abstract Sinister

Lee Bontecou died on Tuesday, Nov. 8, age 91. This article was published in Art in America in September 1993, on the occasion of her traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. It was the first time her work had been publicly shown since her retreat from the art world in the 1970s. During the early 1960s, Lee Bontecou was hailed as one of the most promising young sculptors of her generation. Her elaborate abstract wall sculptures made of canvas stretched ove