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Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Fisher

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Becky

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.c

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Cane

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · portfolio of seven woodcuts in black on Kitakata handmade paper and title page ·  Accession ID  2001.89.2-8

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Avey

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.h

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Carma

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.d

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Fern

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.e

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem, Cane, 2000, bound volume containing 10 woodcuts in black by Martin Puryear on Kitakata handmade paper, with text by Jean Toomer, afterword by Leon Litwack, and colophon page on Biblio paper, Gift of Doris and Don Fisher, 2001.89.1.a-j

Cane

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · bound volume containing 10 woodcuts in black by Martin Puryear on Kitakata handmade paper, with text by Jean Toomer, afterword by Leon Litwack, and colophon page on Biblio paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.a-j

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem, Untitled, 2000, woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper, Gift of Doris and Don Fisher, 2001.89.1.g

Untitled

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.g

A free-standing, stepped pyramid made of interlocking, white concrete blocks sits on a grassy lawn, rising above the bushes and low trees behind it. This photograph shows the pyramid with one corner coming straight at us so each side is a zigzag of twenty-four steps. The structure is lit from our left so casts gray shadows to our right. One tall tree behind the pyramid extends off the top edge of the photograph and buildings in the distance have cream-white walls and red roofs.
Sol LeWitt, Four-Sided Pyramid, first installation 1997, fabricated 1999, concrete blocks and mortar, Gift of the Donald Fisher Family, 1998.149.1

Four-Sided Pyramid

Sol LeWitt · first installation 1997, fabricated 1999 · concrete blocks and mortar ·  Accession ID  1998.149.1

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem, Untitled, 2000, woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper, Gift of Doris and Don Fisher, 2001.89.1.j

Untitled

Martin Puryear, Andrew Hoyem · 2000 · woodcut in black on Kitakata handmade paper ·  Accession ID  2001.89.1.j

This sculpture is made up of about three dozen shovels, axes, pitchforks, hammers, scissors, saws, wrenches, and other tools arranged across a narrow wooden platform, which supports a free-standing, dark gray gate. The gate form is created by two black poles at the center and one on each narrow end to make two wide doors. Flat metal strips curve in long, shallow, horizontal S-shapes across the top of each door. Widely spaced wire grids extend from the central poles, about halfway across each door. Two thin trunks or branches of white birch trees stand behind the wire, one to each side. The handles of the tools create mostly vertical lines across the gates. The tools lie or sit on the platform, or lean against the gates. A few, including shears, hand drills, and calipers are affixed to the central posts or wire. A few objects stand out. At the leftmost edge of the platform, a propeller leans against the left-hand post. One shovel near the propeller and another near the right end of the platform have been cut across their blades, so they rest flat on the platform, as if thrust into dirt ground. A heart-shaped piece of sheet metal sits behind the gate, to our left. It comes just over halfway up the full-sized shovel in front of it, and is red on the left half and streaked with brown and black on the right half. The handles of a few of the tools project outward, toward us, including a pickaxe and pliers near the middle. The room in which this sculpture stands has a white wall and a wood floor, with the narrow planks laid diagonally to create radiating Vs.
Jim Dine, The Gate, Goodbye Vermont, 1985, steel, tools, wood, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Fisher, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.61.1

The Gate, Goodbye Vermont

Jim Dine · 1985 · steel, tools, wood ·  Accession ID  1991.61.1