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Drawing for the Box with the Sound of its Own Making

Date1965

Maker Robert Morris American, 1931 - 2018

Object number82.191

Provenance[Green Gallery, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1965 - 1982; gift to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1982

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

Exhibition HistoryBellingham, Washington, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Sighted/Sited At Western: Drawings For Sculpture, July 2 - August 11, 1990. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Five Installations on the Fourth Floor: Varieties of Sculpture, June 26 - December 18, 1997. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, October 23, 2020 - January 18, 2021.Published ReferencesWeiss, Jeffrey. Robert Morris: Object Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013; p. 84, reproduced fig. 1.

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection

Dimensions16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (41.9 x 52.1 cm)

MediumGraphite and black marker on paper and plastic