Pencil
1966
Sculptor, American, born Latvia, 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas on wood with graphite
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 11.4 x 85.1 x 11.8 cm (4 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2005.142.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles); purchased by Edward R. Broida [1933-2006], Los Angeles; gift (partial and promised) 2005 to NGA; gift completed 2006.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Vija Celmins, Inst. of Cont. Art, Univ. of Penn., Philadelphia; Henry Art Gal., Univ. of Washington, Seattle; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Mus. of Am. Art, New York; Mus. of Cont. Art, Los Angeles, 1992-1994, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Selections from the Broida Collection, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida, 1992, unnumbered brochure.
2006
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006, unnumbered brochure, fig. b.
2010
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Brooklyn Art Museum; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, 2010-2011, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2013
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York, 2013, no. 42, repro.
2014
Vija Celmina: Dubulta Realitate [Vija Celmins: Double Reality], The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, 2014, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 6.
Inscriptions
around center of flat end: V.CELMINS 1966
Wikidata ID
Q63864477