Lema Sabachthani

One of 14 panels from Barnett Newman's series The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani at the De Young. The series addresses Jesus' cry from the cross "Why did you forsake me?" (In Aramaic, Lema sabachthani?). [NOTE: Rather than a religious narrative, Newman explains that the austere, abstract paintings represent "a complete statement of a single subject"].