Helen Torr transformed her careful observation of the details of the natural world into lyrical explorations of color, pattern, and form. Abstract geometric and feather-like shapes swirl around a spiked focal point, evoking connections to a flower and all its component parts.

Overshadowed during her lifetime by her more famous husband Arthur Dove, Torr struggled with self-doubt and asked her sister to destroy her remaining artwork upon her death in 1967. Her sister defied her wishes.