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After she graduated from Yale in 1965 Bartlett embraced a mode of working that reflected her interest in Minimal, Conceptual, and Process art. Using a modular system, she created patterns that followed predetermined combinations and progressions. Although her work was mostly abstract, in 1970 she introduced the motif of a simple house, an image she described as "banal yet poignant." This sheet belongs to a large group of drawings in which she started with the same grid made of rectangles and triangles. Applying different sets of rules, she imagined infinite variations using words and colors. The result mixes system and intuition to produce a new kind of landscape.