This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at
the symmetrical center of the composition — by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support.
(1959), «Black Paintings» series «Out
of frustration with some previous works I'd made using combinations
of black, yellow and red stripes, I started making
symmetrical paintings with all - black bands that radiated in concentric patterns from the
center of the
composition.