Falling by artist Elizabeth Murray is a painting made in 1976. It is made of oil paint on canvas and measures roughly ten feet by slightly under ten feet. It is hung at an angle with one corner of the rectangular canvas pointing toward the ceiling. Diagonally across the canvas, the lowest corner points at the gallery floor. This painting is an example of an abstraction, which is a style of painting that focuses on the gestural movement of shapes and colors rather than depicting scenes or figures. The painting is comprised of three distinct sections of color with a large shape intersecting two of these sections. Starting from the bottom there is a large section of paint that is green in color. Although mostly uniform it is possible to see bits of exposed canvas throughout. This section extends toward the topmost corner of the painting on the left, and toward the middle of the canvas on the right. This section is interrupted by a portion of brown-red colored paint that is an irregular shape with an undulating bottom and a pointed top. This section of paint covers a large portion of the remaining canvas that is not green and leaves only a small area toward the top of the canvas that is occupied by the final section of paint, which is a light yellow. Intersecting the two larger sections of color is an arc-like shape that is painted in a bright red. At its peak it seems to create a small loop within itself resembling a cursive letter “M”. Within this loop there is a small teardrop shape of black paint. Above the red arc, there is a small thin line of blue paint that zigzags its way across the entire width of the painting. The title of piece seems to reference the manner in which the painting is hung, which resembles a painting that is in the process of falling off the wall.