Triangular and Square Numbers
1972
Artist, American, 1940 - 2025
Artwork overview
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Medium
brown felt-tip pen and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (sheet cut as a right angle:): 24.5 x 18.7 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1994.17.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Sonnabend Gallery, Inc., NY); Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, New York, NY; Gift to NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 23.
1997
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (formerly Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery), University of Texas, Austin, 1997.
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1997.
1998
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland, 1998.
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1998.
Bibliography
1975
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the '60s and the '70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975: p. 8
1994
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 23.
Inscriptions
upper left in graphite: TRIANGULAR + SQUARE NUMBERS / MEL BOCHNER, 1972
Wikidata ID
Q64614283