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me think about my ideas about the shaped canvas. It seemed to me that I might have misrepresented something that I think is important (because of your earlier dismissal of Noland's recent use of the shaped canvas).

When I finished the eccentric polygons I was as usual happy, but worried. One of the things that bothered me the most was that I felt that, maybe, I had pushed the shaped-canvas about as far as it could go. The result of this thinking was that I really thought of the Protractor paintings as not being shaped canvases. They were meant to be basically symetrical[[symmetrical]] & stable, & the circle was seen & felt by me, at least, to stand for a return to regular shaped supports.

This, in itself, is probably no great news, but it does have a bearing on my attitude in plunging into the Polish pictures. I had a real sense, while working on the drawings, that I was going to make good on the shaped canvas, not just running back to the '66 ptgs. because they were good.

[[left margin]] ? Yes [[/left margin]]