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Thicket

Photo: Paul Macapia

Thicket

1990

Martin Puryear

American, born 1941

Basswood and cypress
67 x 62 x 17 in. (170.18 x 157.48 x 43.18 cm)
Gift of Agnes Gund
90.32
Provenance: The artist; [Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois]
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryChicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Martin Puryear, Nov. 2, 1991 - Jan. 5, 1992 (Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Feb. 5 - June 21, 1992; Los Angeles, California, Museum of Contemporary Art, July, 26 - Oct. 4, 1992; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 1, 1992 - Jan. 3, 1993).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Five Installations on the Fourth Floor: Varieties of Sculpture, June 26, 1997.

Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Martin Puryear: Recent Sculptures, Mar. 6, 2001 - Apr. 14, 2002.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Africa in America, Dec.18, 2004 - Jan. 1, 2006.

New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Martin Puryear, Nov. 4, 2007 - Jan. 14, 2008 (Fort Worth, Texas, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Feb. 24 - May 18, 2008; Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, June 22 - Sept. 28, 2008; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 1, 2008 - Jan. 25, 2009). Text by
John Elderfield. No cat. no., reproduced pp. 147, pl. 33.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Mar. 16 - Oct. 27, 2013.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Storied Objects, Nov. 13, 2019 - Apr. 26, 2021.
Published ReferencesSelected Works. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 134.

Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 2007; reproduced p. 100.

An Eye for Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2013; p. 174.

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