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Lunar Landscape
Object Details
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Date
1959-1960
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Object Type
Sculptures
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Medium
Painted wood
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Dimensions
86 x 49 x 14 in.
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Inscriptions
Signed in several places: NEVELSON 1960 NEVELSON 1959 NEVELSON 1959 NEVELSON 1959 NEVELSON 1960 NEVELSON 1960
Element A:
bottom, in graphite, upside down: 6190-M
Verso, c. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
11 x 3.5 x 3 inches
Element B:
bottom, u.l. in graphite: 6190-M
top, u.l. inscribed: NEVELSON \ 1960
Verso, u.r. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
17.25 x13.75 x 6.5 inches
Element C:
Recto: u.l. inscribed on circular element: NEVELSON \ 1959
Verso, u.l. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
43.25 x 18.25 x 8 inches
Element D:
top, along left side, in graphite: 6190-M-I
Verso: u.c. inscribed: NEVELSON \ 1959
Verso, u.c. on [removed] label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
47.5 x 5.75 x 7.25 inches
Element E:
Verso: u.c. inscribed: NEVELSON \ 1959
Verso, u.r. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
43.75 x 22 x 10 inches
Element F: 13.75 x 17.5 x 6.5 inches
Element G: 15.5 x 9 x 7.25 inches
Element H: 12.25 x 19.25 x 9 inches
Element I: 18 x 17.75 x 6.25 inches
Element J: 12 x 49 x 12.5 inches
Element F:
left side, c. inscribed: NEVELSON \ 1960
Verso, u.r. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
Element G:
Verso, u.l. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
Element H:
Verso, u.r. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
Element I:
top, c. in graphite: 6190-M [painted over]
Verso, u.r. on label: PACE \ LUNAR LANDSCAPE WALL [typewritten] \ the pace gallery 125 newbury street, boston \ arnold glincher, director congress 2-9383
bottom, lower right, inscribed upside down: NEVELSON \ 1960
Element J:
[none]
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds from the Ruth Carter Stevenson Acquisitions Endowment
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Accession Number
1999.3.A-J
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Copyright
Public domain
Object Description
Nevelson scavenged wooden objects from New York City debris piles to create monumental relief constructions, which broke the taboo that only male artists could create large-scale sculptures. In this one, she incorporated disparate parts like a bedpost, juggling pin, and seat fragment, nailing and gluing them into boxes that reflect the influence of Cubism’s geometric abstraction of space and form. Believing that these found objects arranged in different configurations called to mind the moon’s surface, the sculptor painted everything black to unify the work and amplify its crater-like appearance. When Nevelson exhibited such pieces, she illuminated them in theatrical black light to give them a dramatic look as she wanted viewers to feel immersed within the objects’ environments.
Additional details
Location: On view
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Grades 4–12
Students will think of a place they have never been but would like to explore. They should consider which objects they would use to create their own assemblage inspired by this place. Students will write about which objects they might choose and why. Then they will sketch their assemblage.
Grades 6–12
Students will use wood scraps and other found objects to create their own assemblage. A cardboard box can be used for the base and students can choose whether or not to paint the box and their objects one solid color before using hot glue or wood glue to assemble their sculpture.
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