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A long, tan cylinder leaning next to a white, half moon-shaped object, and a flat, black curved object.

Three objects placed next to each other on a grey background. The first is a long, thin tan cylinder with a bent, white tip leaning on the wall to the left. The next is a centered white, half moon-shaped object that stands crooked on its curved edge. The third is a flat, black curved object with the right end pointing further up.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.117
People
Richard Tuttle, American (Rahway, NJ born 1941)
Title
Swept One
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1970-1980
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/197518

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Galvanized metal
Dimensions
10 x 2.5 x 23 cm (3 15/16 x 1 x 9 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Tuttle, New York; to [Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland], 1998, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Barbara Lee and the Frances F. and John Bowes Fund
Copyright
© Richard Tuttle
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.117
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Art 29'98 (Art Fair Basel), auct. cat., Kunstmesse Basel (Basel, Switzerland, 1998), p. 393, reproduced in b/w
  • Richard Tuttle, Small Sculpture of the 70s, exh. cat., Sally Nicholls and Annemarie Verna Galerie (Zurich, Switzerland, 1998), p. 39, reproduced in b/w
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 87, ill. (color)
  • Madeleine Grynsztejn, The Art of Richard Tuttle, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005), fig. 130

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/07/2017

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