Paintings
As a painter, Falkenstein’s early work encompassed large-scale murals and canvases featuring biomorphic forms that were at once organic and mechanical. The energetic mark-making of her Moving Point series found expression on canvas, while her later paintings translated the dynamic motion of her abstract experiments into a renewed engagement with figuration.
Lumber Mill, 1938. Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 × 36 in. (67.3 × 91.4 cm)
Tapping Out Steel, 1942. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 × 46 in. (89.535 × 116.84 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation, M.2001.36
Shapes in Transition, 1948. Painted, cut and incised aluminum with curved wood frame, 29 1/2 × 34 × 7 1/2 in. (74.9 × 86.4 × 19.1 cm)
Changing Dimensions, 1948. Oil on canvas, 36 × 41 in. (91.4 × 104.14 cm). Palm Springs Art Museum, gift of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation, 16-2010
Interpenetration, 1948. Enamel on plywood, 29 × 44 in. (73.7 × 111.8 cm). Oakland Museum of California, gift of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation, 2000.34.1
Barcelona #2, 1949. Gouache on paper on canvas, 39 × 25 in. (99.1 × 63.5 cm)
Orange Maze (Barcelona # 10), 1949. Gouache on paper mounted to canvas, 24 × 37 in. (61 × 94 cm)
Lunar Plain, 1963. Acrylic, oil, gold leaf, rock and sand on canvas, 9 1/2 × 39 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (100.3 × 100.3 × 7 cm)
Orbit the Earth, 1963. Oil and metallic paint on canvas, 84 × 238 1/2 in. (213.4 × 605.8 cm)
La Brea, 1967. Acrylic or oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in. (177.8 × 152.4 cm). Palm Springs Art Museum, gift of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation, 17-2010
Macrocosm-Microcosm of the Free Fall, 1969. Acrylic, oil, and metallic paint on canvas, 47 × 71 1/2 in. (119.4 × 181.6 cm)
Untitled, 1994. Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 108 in. (182.9 × 274.3 cm)