American Art Collaborative

As subject matter, barnyards were nearly as common as lions in Langlais’s late work. Crammed together in tight, space-filling arrangements, his farm creatures cohabitate cheek by jowl, the shape of one neatly defining the contour of the next in a way reminiscent of the interlocking images in Langlais’s early paintings. In Untitled (Barnyard) he emphasizes those shapes and contours with black outlines—a technique dating back to his student days.