Partially Buried Woodshed
1970
Artist, American, 1938 - 1973
Artwork overview
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Medium
black felt-tip pen on six sheets of wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Robert Smithson and Werner H. Kramarsky
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Dimensions
sheet (each): 22.86 × 30.48 cm (9 × 12 in.)
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Accession
1998.116.1.a-f
Associated Artworks
See all 6 artworks
Partially Buried Woodshed [lower left]
Robert Smithson
1970
Partially Buried Woodshed [lower right]
Robert Smithson
1970
Partially Buried Woodshed [upper left]
Robert Smithson
1970
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of Robert Smithson; gift to NGA, 1998
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1999
Robert Smithson: Retrospective-Works 1955-1973. Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999, no. 174.
Bibliography
1991
Tsai, Eugenie. Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings. New York, 1991: 180 repro.
1999
Robert Smithson Retrospective: works 1995-1973. Exh. cat. Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999: 280, no. 173.
2019
Meyer. James Sampson. The Art of Return: The Sixties & Contemporary Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019: 167-169, fig. 29; 328 (note 54).
Inscriptions
lower right verso of upper left sheet in graphite: #13092; lower left verso of upper right sheet in graphite: #13089; lower left verso of center left sheet in graphite: #13093; lower right verso of center right sheet in graphite: #13090; lower right verso of lower left sheet in graphite: #13094; across lower edge of lower right sheet in black felt-tip pen: Partially Buried Wood Shed / 70 Kent U / R. Smithson; lower right verso in graphite: #13092
Wikidata ID
Q64629099