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Lead-Aluminum Plain

Lead-Aluminum Plain

1969

Carl Andre

American, 1935 - 2024

Flat floor sculptures are Andre's trademark, emphasizing a break from the longstanding sculptural tradition of verticality and mass. Instead, works such as this shift attention to the place in which the sculpture is shown, demarcating a specific spot on the floor in a particular setting, one which does not exclude the presence of the viewer.




Lead and aluminum
3/16 x 72 x 72 in. (0.5 x 183 x 183 cm)
Gift of Sidney and Anne Gerber, by exchange, and funds from the Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
77.10
Provenance: The artist; [Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1977
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland State University, Visiting Artist Program, May 27 - June 6, 1980.

Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, An American Tradition: Abstraction, Dec. 4, 1981 - Jan. 17, 1982.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Minimalism: Aftermath and Affinities, Mar. 27 - Aug. 25, 1996.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Varieties of Sculpture, June 26 - Dec. 7, 1997.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Anne Gerber Biennial: 2000 1/2: going forward looking back, May 8 - Aug. 4, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum in collaboration with the Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham, New York, Creating Perfection: Shaker Objects and Their Affinities, Oct. 5, 2000 - Apr. 29, 2001.

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

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

Published ReferencesWestwater, Angela, ed. Carl Andre: Sculpture 1958-1974. Catalogue raisonné published in conjunction with 1975 Kunsthalle Bern retrospective. Bern, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern, 1975; cat. no. 1969-72, p. 51.

Haynes, Deborah J. Bakhtin and the Visual Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; p. 103, reproduced fig. 14.

Carl Andre: Sculptures 1958-2011. Catalogue raisonné [CD-ROM]. Belgium, Brussels: Registry Carl Andre, 2011; cat. no. 1969-75, p. 48, reproduced.

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