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Lee Bontecou working on her sculpture for the Lincoln Center in her Wooster Street studio

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Description: Lee Bontecou working on her sculpture for the Lincoln Center in her Wooster Street...
TitleLee Bontecou working on her sculpture for the Lincoln Center in her Wooster Street studio
Creator nameUnknown
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1964
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsUnknown
SubjectsMinimal artArtists' studiosSculpture, American--20th centuryWomen artists--United States--20th century
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1. ‘Threatening, and Possibly Functioning Objects’: Lee Bontecou
Jo Applin
Description: Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
Between 1959 and 1967 Lee Bontecou made a large number of wall-mounted metal and fabric abstract relief works that were unlike anything then being produced by her peers in New York. The reliefs varied in size...
Author
Jo Applin
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2012 by Jo Applin
Related print edition pages: pp.13-41
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00043.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15443&redirecttoanchor=16754
Chapter subject tags:Minimal artBontecou, Lee, 1931-2022Sculpture, American--20th centuryFound objects (Art)Art criticism--History--20th centuryChamberlain, John, 1927–2011Women artists--United States--20th century

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Description: Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie
Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 17
Creator nameVigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1786
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on wood
Dimensions41 3/8 x 33 1/8 in. (105 x 84 cm)
LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010063406
Accession number3069
Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie
Self-Portrait with Daughter
Description: Hang Up
Hang Up
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1966
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsAcrylic on cloth over wood; acrylic on cord over steel tube
Dimensions72 x 84 x 78 in. (182.9 x 213.4 x 198.1 cm)
LocationArt Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71396/hang-up
Accession number1988.130
Hang Up
Hang Up
Description: Contingent
Contingent
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1969
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsCheesecloth, latex, and fiberglass
Dimensions137 4/5 x 248 x 42 9/10 (350 x 630 x 109 cm), eight units, installation variable
LocationNational Gallery of Australia, Parkes
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/49353
Accession numberNGA 74.395.A-H
Contingent
Contingent
Description: Untitled
Untitled
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1970
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsLatex over rope, string, and wire
DimensionsHeights of three units 144 1/8, 126, and 89 3/4 in. (366, 320, and 228 cm), width and length variable
LocationWhitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://collection.whitney.org/object/5551
Accession number88.17a-b
Untitled
Untitled
Description: Untitled
Untitled
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 06
Creator nameBontecou, Lee
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1960
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsWelded steel and canvas
Dimensions72 x 56 x 20 in. (182.8 x 142.2 x 50.8 cm)
LocationVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Accession number85.364
Untitled
Untitled
Description: Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York,...
Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York, showing works by Donald Judd
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1966
Object typePhotograph
Installation view of Primary Structures...
Untitled 1966 (on wall) and Untitled 1966 (on floor)
Description: Several
Several
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1965
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsAcrylic on papier-mâché over rubber hose
Dimensions84 x 11 x 7 in. (213.4 x 27.9 x 17.8 cm)
LocationSaatchi Collection, London
Several
Several
Description: Accession II
Accession II
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1967
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsGalvanized steel and plastic tubing
Dimensions30 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 30 3/4 in. (78 x 78 x 78 cm)
LocationDetroit Institute of Arts
http://www.dia.org/object-info/aeebe5e6-e1a7-47f5-8da7-82320e0ecb2e.aspx
Accession number79.34
Accession II
Accession II
Description: Accession II, detail of interior
Accession II, detail of interior
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1967
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsGalvanized steel and plastic tubing
LocationDetroit Institute of Arts
http://www.dia.org/object-info/aeebe5e6-e1a7-47f5-8da7-82320e0ecb2e.aspx
Accession number79.34
Accession II, detail of interior
Accession II, detail of interior
Description: Untitled
Untitled
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1970
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsLatex over rope, string, and wire
DimensionsHeights of three units 144 1/8, 126, and 89 3/4 in. (366, 320, and 228 cm), width and length variable
LocationWhitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://collection.whitney.org/object/5551
Accession number88.17a-b
Untitled
Untitled
Description: Untitled
Untitled
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 06
Creator nameBontecou, Lee
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1961
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsWelded steel, canvas, wire and velvet
Dimensions56 x 39 1/2 x 21 1/8 (142.2 x 100.3 x 55.4 cm)
LocationWalker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/untitled-2215
Accession number1966.10
Untitled
Untitled
Description: Right After
Right After
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameHesse, Eva
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1969
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsResin over glass fibre cord
Dimensions78 x 179 7/8 x 120 1/8 in. (198 x 457 x 305 cm)
LocationMilwaukee Art Musuem
http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=8715
Accession numberM1970.27
Right After
Right After
Description: Untitled
Untitled
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 06
Creator nameBontecou, Lee
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1959
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsWelded steel, canvas and wire
Dimensions13 x 14 x 9 in. (33 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm)
Untitled
Untitled

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