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Lee Bontecou, American, 1931 - 2022

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1964

Graphite on wove graph paper

Sheet: 16 9/16 × 21 5/8 in. (42 × 54.9 cm)

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

© Lee Bontecou

D.976.217.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Bontecou '64

Course History

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012

SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014

SART 15, Drawing I, Edward del Rosario, Spring 2015

SART 15, Drawing I, Edward del Rosario, Spring 2015

SART 15, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2019

SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019

SART 15.01, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2020

Exhibition History

Sculpture and Sculptor's Drawings, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 16,21, and 73, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 20-October 7, 1996.

The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.

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

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 220, ill. p. 228.

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.172, no.147.

Provenance

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

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