Family Portrait — Fine Art

A painted grid of small squares fills the canvas in Family Portrait - 1958. The eye moves along each row before resting on the darker blocks near the centre.

Empty space keeps the rows from feeling crowded. Alfred Jensen worked in this numbered, colour field style. The fine art print keeps the painted blocks clear on the matte paper.

A white frame gives the grid a clean border and the white edge stays quiet against the painted squares. You notice the steady rows first, then the thicker colour in the middle. It fits a hallway wall with pale paint, where the grid reads from the far end of the corridor.