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A dark-colored hoop, perhaps black, is shown against a white background. A sliver of lemon yellow is painted across the top edge of the hoop. The nearly perfect symmetry of the circle is broken only by a slight bend on the upper right.

Martin Puryear

Blue Blood, 1979

Not on View

Medium

polychromed pine and red cedar

Dimensions

overall (diameter x depth): 168.59 × 5.08 cm (66 3/8 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Truland Foundation)

Accession Number

2014.136.288

Artists / Makers

Martin Puryear (sculptor) American, born 1941

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Provenance

(Protetch/McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.);[1] gift 1980 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The name of the Protetch-McIntosh Gallery changed over the years, first to the McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, then to the Nancy Drysdale Gallery.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery

Exhibition History

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

1982: Modern Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982.

1984: Martin Puryear, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield; New Museum, New York; La Jolla Museum, California, 3 February - December 1984.

2001: Martin Puryear: Recent Sculptures, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 6 March - 27 May 2001.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2010: Modern and Contemporary Art Since 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010.