LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pine

Measurements:

64.49 in. (163.80 cm.) (height) by 80.00 in. (203.20 cm.) (width) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, David McKee Gallery, Martin Puryear, November-December 1987. Belmont, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Objects of Potential: Five American Sculptors from the Anderson Collection, February-March 1990, n.p. Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Martin Puryear, November 1991-October 1992, pp. 110-111, 137 and 145, no. 31 (illustrated in color). Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Putting Things Together: Recent Sculpture from the Anderson Collection, April-June 1994 (illustrated in color on the brochure cover). Palo Alto Cultural Center, The Essential Object, January-April 1996. Madrid, Fundación la Caixa, Martin Puryear, November 1997-January 1998, pp. 86-87, no. 20 (illustrated in color). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 27, 184, 188, 256 and 382, pl. 103, no. 234 (illustrated in color). San Jose Museum of Art, Martin Puryear Skybridge Installation, February-June 2005. New York, Museum of Modern Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Martin Puryear, November 2007-January 2009, pp. 137 and 166, no. 23 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

M. Brenson, "Maverick Sculptor Makes Good," The New York Times Magazine, 1 November 1987, p. 84 (installation view illustrated). P. Krainak, "Contraprimitivism and Martin Puryear," Art Papers, no. 13, March-April 1989, p. 40 (illustrated). K. Jones, Martin Puryear, Sao Paulo, 1989, p. 21 (illustrated in color). "Objects of Potential," San Jose Mercury News, 4 February 1990. M. Tanner, "Vistas into Shared Terrain," Artweek, no. 21, 8 March 1990, p. 28. K. Baker, "Prime Displays of Anti-Minimalism Art on Peninsula," San Francisco Chronicle, 21 March 1990, p. E3. G. Anders, "He Sawed and Conquered," Washington Post, 5 February 1992 (illustrated). K. Baker, "Borrowed Glory," San Francisco Chronicle, 5 October 2000, p. E1 (illustrated). M. S. Hutton, "Under the Gaze of Sentinel," Gettysburg, Autumn 2003, p. 16 (illustrated in color). G. Allen et al., A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, New York, 2014, p. 186, fig. 3 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

David McKee Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988