The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Cecile Abish was an urban planner until 1965, when she decided to be an artist. Boxed Monuments #3 was commissioned by Multiples, Inc. An edition of 500, it was constructed out of three-ply white Strathmore board and cardboard with two offset lithographs on graph paper affixed to its container. A one-inch scaled model of an idea for a monumental public artwork that could be sized up to 100 feet, its accordion shape relates to two temporal works that Abish created on-site for Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists. Exhibited on the grounds was a seventy-five-foot-long sculpture made from brown paper cut to travel with the wind and that slowly deteriorated over the course of the show. Fields from 1970,
an indoor floor sculpture, was built with vinyl, galvanized wire cloth, and urethane foam, its continuous folds implying that it could contract and expand.