Piece LXXIV

1968

Anthony Caro

British, 1924 - 2013

Varnished steel

39 x 57 x 20 in. (99.1 x 144.8 x 50.8cm)

Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

2014.25.10

Provenance: [Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 19, 1969

Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23 - June 29, 1969. Cat. no. 2.

Bellingham, Washington, The Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Contemporary Sculpture from Northwest Collections, Mar. 2 - 19, 1971.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4, 1999 - May 5, 1999. Text by Trevor Fairbrother. No cat. no., p. 199, reproduced pp. 32, 174.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Big Picture: Art After 1945, July 23, 2016 - May 16, 2021.

Published ReferencesBlume, Dieter and Kunstverein Braunschweig. Anthony Caro: Table and Related Sculptures 1966 - 1978. Braunschweig: Der Kunstverein, 1979; cat no. 74, reproduced pp. 57,183.

Barker, Ian. Anthony Caro: Quest for the New Sculpture. Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2004; reproduced p. 178.

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