The picture developed – bit by bit while I was working on it – into shapes symbolic of an exuberant figure and ladder.... therefore: 'Jacob's Ladder' [the title of the painting she made in 1966].
On the birth of a title of the art-work 'Jacob's Ladder'
From: "MoMA Highlights, New York", The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published in 1999, p. 219
