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Object Details

Artist
Jean Arp, French, b. Strasbourg, Alsace, 1886-1966
Date
(1942)
Medium
Granite
Dimensions
5 3/8 X 10 1/4 X 7 1/4 IN. (13.6 X 26.0 X 18.4 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.109

Buchholz Gallery, New York, by January 1949
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Zimmerman, New York, by October 1958
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
Harold Diamond, New York, to 9 February 1962
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 9 February 1962-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York. "Jean Arp," 18 January-12 February 1949, no. 24, ill., dated 1947.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Jean Arp: A Retrospective," 8 October-30 November 1958, no. 85, ill. p. 75.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 9.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE, Washington, DC (organizer). "Surrealist Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," fig. 13, p. 23. Tour: JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, Omaha, 22 March-4 May 1986; FINE ARTS CENTER AT CHEEKWOOD, Nashville, 26 June-7 September; MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Alabama, 27 September-9 November; VASSAR COLLEGE ART GALLERY, Poughkeepsie, New York, 29 November-11 January 1987; SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS, Palm Beach, Florida, 31 January-15 March; IBM GALLERY OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York City, 4 April-17 May.

HESS, THOMAS B. "Arp: Well-Rounded Mystic," Art News 47/9 (January 1949), ill. p. 22.
GIDEON-WELCKER, CAROLA. Jean Arp (New York: Abrams, 1959), ill. p. 65, no. 79, p. 110.
LIEBSON, MILT. Direct Stone Sculpture (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1991), ill. p. 47.

Signature
Unsigned
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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