untitled (Hood Museum of Art)
Joel Shapiro, American, born 1941
1989-1990
Bronze
Height: 21 ft. (640 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from Kirsten and Peter Bedford, Class of 1989P, Sondra and Celso Gonzalez-Falla, Daryl and Steven Roth, Class of 1962; and an anonymous donor; The Lathrop Fellows, including Kristin and Peter Bedford; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burke, Class of 1944; Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gates, Class of 1959; Jerome Goldstein, Class of 1954; Mr. and Mrs. W. Patrick Gramm, Class of 1952; Mrs. Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924W; Melville Straus, Class of 1960; Frederick Henry, Class of 1967; Mrs. Preston T. Kelsey, Class of 1958W; Mrs. Richard Lombard, Class of 1953W; and an anonymous friend; purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund and the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund; Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange.
© Joel Shapiro/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
S.990.40
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
On view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on north face of installation mount; Shapiro 1989-1990
Course History
GEOG 45, Exploring Nature and Culture in New England, Abigail Neely, Summer 2015
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Damiano Benvegnu, Fall 2016
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian 3, Damiano Benvengnu, Spring 2017
Ital 3, Introductory Italian 3, Damiano Benvegnu, Summer 2017
SART 16, Sculpture I, Matt Seigle, Spring 2022
SART 16.01, Sculpture I, William Ransom, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
Public Art, Bedford Courtyard, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, In Relationship: Finding Balance in Modern American Sculpture, Madeline Thompson, Class of 2017, Kathyrn Conroy Programing Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.mthompson.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 12, fig. 19, p.117, no. 91.
Public Art at Dartmouth, A Walking Tour of the Public Sculpture Collection on Campus (brochure), Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2014, p. 1.
Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1990.
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