Meredith Moench

American, b. 1945

Hurricane
1980

Mixed media on paper
29.25 x 37.25 x 0.75 in.
Gift of The Phillips Collection
1999.73

• blue
• branches - Portions or limbs of trees or other plants that grow out of the stem or trunk, or out of one of the boughs.
• curvy
• Docks
• grey
• hurricanes
• Palms - Sources:
  - Web. 3 (palm family, Palmae)
  - Random House (palm family, the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly Palmaceae))
  - Britannica Macro.:
  - Benson, L. Plant classification:
• pink
• red
• stitches - Refers to portions of thread left in fabric or another material by the in and out movement of a threaded needle through the thickness or surface of the material. It also refers to the loops of thread created on a needle in knitting or other needlework.
• tears - Separations in a flexible material caused by pulling or wrenching part from part.
• tree
• water - A liquid made up of molecules of hydrogen and oxygen (HO2). When pure, it is colorless, tasteless, and odorless. It exists in gaseous, liquid, and solid forms; it is liquid at room temperature. It is the liquid of which seas, lakes, and rivers are composed, and which falls as rain. Water is one of the most plentiful and essential of compounds. It is vital to life, participating in virtually every process that occurs in plants and animals. One of its most important properties is its ability to dissolve many other substances. The versatility of water as a solvent is essential to living organisms. The term "water" is typically used to refer to the liquid form of this compound; for the solid or gaseous forms, use "ice" or "water vapor."
• windstorms - Storms with high winds, and little or no precipitation.
• yellow