The Hard-edged Vision of Carmen Herrera

Published December 13, 2016 1:51pm ET



New York

Grandma Moses she is not. Rather than painting heartwarming depictions of a mythic American hinterland, Carmen Herrera has fashioned some of the most severe examples of hard-edge abstraction ever conceived. What she shares with Grandma Moses, however, is that now, with a show at the Whitney, she has finally found fame at the age of 101.

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