One Work: Etel Adnan’s “Untitled”

Writing in 1986, Etel Adnan recalled the moment she grasped the role of Mount Tamalpais in her life. Asked in front of a television camera to name the most important person she’d ever met, she’d replied, “a mountain.” It was then that she realized the subject framed by her window in Sausalito, California, was not just a source of inspiration but “at the center of [her] being.”
The Guggenheim exhibition “Light’s New Measure” includes forty-eig