Jay DeFeo labored obsessively over her legendary painting The Rose, nearly exclusively from 1958 to 1966. The work became so dense with pigment during those eight years that when she and her husband, Wally Hedrick, were evicted from their Fillmore Street apartment in 1965, a hole had to be cut in the side of the building to extricate the enormous canvas. The painting was thought to weigh almost a ton. (In The White Rose, a short, lyrical film from 1967 by Bruce Conner, a forlorn DeFeo is shown dangling her legs over the fire escape as a moving truck drives her painting away.) Formally exhibited