White Dreams

Marisol, Venezuelan and American (born in France), 1930 - 2016

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1968

Plastic and wood with fresh-cut white carnation

Overall: 9 1/2 × 10 3/16 × 2 13/16 in. (24.1 × 25.9 × 7.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Jay R. Wolf, Class of 1951

S.976.175

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, titled, and dated, on reverse: Marisol 1968

Exhibition History

Acquisitions 1974-1978 Jaffe-Friede, Strauss & Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

American Flowers, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, Janaury 29-February 15, 1982.

Art from the Vice-President's House from Northeast Museums, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, March 6-13, 1979.

Artist as Object/Subject, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 1999-March 12, 2000.

Late and Post-Modernism: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5-June 18, 1995.

Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 5-August 11, 1991.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the present, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall, Churchill P. Lanthrop, Friends, and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

The Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 28, 1977.

Publication History

Mamoru Yonekura, Contemporary Great Masters: Marisol, Tokyo: Kodansha, Ltd., 1993, ill. 28.

Nancy Grove, Magical Mixtures: Marosil Portrait Sculpture, Washington D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1991, p. 70-71, no. 14.

Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, London: Pandora, 1981, ill. cover.

Provenance

Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1976.

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