Airplane Disaster
1968
Vija Celmins
Artist, American, born Latvia, 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on paper prepared with acrylic ground
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 32.2 x 44.9 cm (12 11/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 x 46.9 cm (13 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2005.142.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Edward R. Broida, Los Angeles; gift 2005 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2006
Vija Celmins, Dessins/Drawings, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 25 October 2006 - 8 Jan 2007; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, 28 Jan 2007 - 22 Apr 2007.
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 200.
2013
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2013-2014 (not shown at two venues in Europe).
2018
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA , 15 December 2018 - 31 March 2019; Art Gallery of Ontraio, Toronoto, 4 May 2019 - 5 August 2019; The Met Breuer, New York, NY, 24 September 2019 - 12 January 2020 (shown at New York venue only).
Bibliography
2006
Vija Celmins, Dessins/Drawings. (Exh. cat. Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, paris; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2006-2007). Paris, 2006: 192, no. 1.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: V. Celmins '68
Wikidata ID
Q64633676