The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the final venue for the first comprehensive survey of Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s paintings, housed an exhibit of 54 major canvases and a single drypoint print, all executed between 1967 and 1994. This retrospective, organized by the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, documents this artist’s evolution from a realist painter of studio interiors to a landscape painter of the Hudson River Valley. The earliest paintings exhibited (which date from 1967 to 1975) were austere images of floorboards, walls, mirrors and empty studio spaces. The methodical control evident in