A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey

1967

Robert Smithson

Artist, American, 1938 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Photostat of map with typed text

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Virginia Dwan

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.4 × 27.1 cm (7 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
    mount: 32 × 27 cm (12 5/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.19.2.2

Associated Artworks

We look slightly down at a hexagonal, abstract sculpture made with teal-blue, wooden bins radiating out in six arms from a smaller hexagonal bin in the center. Each of the six arms tapers from wider and taller bins at the perimeter to narrower, shorter bins near the center. Light brown sand partially fills the bins. The bins sit on a white platform, the outlines of which follow the six sides of the snowflake-like arrangement of bins. The platform sits on battleship-gray carpet.

A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey

Robert Smithson

1967

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Virginia Dwan, New York; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: R. Smithson 67; lower center, typed on label: A NONSITE (an indoor earthwork) / 31 sub-divisions based on a hexagonal / "airfield" in the Woodmansie Quadrangle - / New Jersey (Topographic) map. Each sub - / division of the Nonsite contains sand / from the site shown on the map. Tours / between the Nonsite and the site are possible. / The red dot on the map is the place where / the sand was collected.

Wikidata ID

Q64169892

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