Glass Stratum, conceived 1967, refabricated 2014

Not on View

Medium

glass

Dimensions

overall: 44.45 × 213.36 × 30.48 cm (17 1/2 × 84 × 12 in.)
each unit (thickness; 37 layers, each 2 inches shorter than the previous): 1.27 cm (1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Virginia Dwan

Accession Number

2013.19.1

Artists / Makers

Robert Smithson (artist) American, 1938 - 1973

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Provenance

Virginia Dwan, New York; gift 2013 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dwan, Virginia

Exhibition History

1980: Robert Smithson: Sculpture, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; American Pavilion, 40th Biennale, Venice; ARC, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Sara Hilder Museum, Helsinki; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1980-1984, no. S11 (1980-1982 catalogue for U.S. venues), S9 (Paris and Otterlo catalogues), repro. (original fabrication).

1993: Robert Smithson: Une rétrospective: Le paysage entropique 1960-1973, IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, 1993-1994, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (refabrication for the exhibition).

2016: Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016-2017, no. 67, repro.

Bibliography

2013: Meyer, James. "Robert Smithson, A Non-Site (Pine Barrens, New Jersey) and Glass Stratum." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 49 (Fall 2013): 27, repro.