SWEET SUITE SUBSTITUTE

conceived 1968, fabricated 1982

Bruce Nauman

Artist, American, born 1941

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Artwork overview

Medium

red, yellow, and blue glass tubing, with clear glass tubing suspension frame
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Firestone, Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gerstin, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hall, Jr., Hon. and Mrs. H. John Heinz, III, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace F. Holladay, Mr. and Mrs. Freeborn G. Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney, Mr.and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rea, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Salant, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Sarnoff, Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II, Mr. and Mrs. Brainard H. Warner, Hon. and Mrs. Sidney R. Yates, and Museum Purchase with funds from the William A. Clark Fund and the Mrs. Ethel B. Garrett Fund in honor of Jane Livingston)
Dimensions

overall: 5 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (13.34 x 75.57 x 12.07 cm)
Accession

2014.136.291

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf). sold to (Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York);[1] purchased 1985 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] See notes by Corcoran curator, Jonathan P. Binstock, dated 23 August 2001, and the e-mail from Brenda Richardson to Binstock, dated 22 August 2001; in NGA curatorial files. Fischer was the artist's European dealer.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1982

Bruce Nauman: Neons, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1982-1983, no. 9, repro.

1984

[Bruce Nauman exhibition], Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984.

2006

Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007.

2010

Modern and Contemporary Art Since 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-2012

Wikidata ID

Q63863811

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