Ancient Secrets

1964

Louise Nevelson

Associated Names
Louise Nevelson

Sculptor, American, born Russia (now Ukraine), 1899 - 1988

The sculpture is composed of two tall rectangular objects with shelves and hinged doors resembling cupboards or cabinets. The doors are open to reveal shelves filled with geometric shapes and forms including blocks, cylinders, rectangular prisms, and other irregular shapes. The doors of the two cabinets have thin rectangles inside them. The entire sculpture, including the doors, shelves, and the objects on the shelves, are entirely black.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pace Gallery, New York); purchased October 1968 as a gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Exhibition History

1971

  • Depth and Presence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3-30 May 1971.

1974

  • Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 28 February - 28 March 1974.

1975

  • 15 American Artists from the Corcoran: An Exhibition of American 20th Century Works from the Permanent Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, London Art Gallery, Ontario, 4 April - 6 May 1975, no. 12, repro.

  • Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, 3 October 1975 - 16 May 1976.

1982

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

1986

  • Friends of the Corcoran 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections from Acquisitions by the Friends of the Corcoran, 1961-1985, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 14-30 March 1986, unnumbered checklist.

Wikidata ID

Q63864243

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