Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970

Not on View

Medium

black felt-tip pen on six sheets of wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (each): 22.86 × 30.48 cm (9 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Robert Smithson and Werner H. Kramarsky

Accession Number

1998.116.1.a-f

Artists / Makers

Robert Smithson (artist) American, 1938 - 1973

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Inscription

lower right verso of upper left sheet in graphite: #13092; lower left verso of upper right sheet in graphite: #13089; lower left verso of center left sheet in graphite: #13093; lower right verso of center right sheet in graphite: #13090; lower right verso of lower left sheet in graphite: #13094; across lower edge of lower right sheet in black felt-tip pen: Partially Buried Wood Shed / 70 Kent U / R. Smithson; lower right verso in graphite: #13092

Provenance

Estate of Robert Smithson; gift to NGA, 1998

Associated Names

Holt, Nancy
Smithson, Robert, Estate of

Exhibition History

1999: Robert Smithson: Retrospective-Works 1955-1973. Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999, no. 174.

Bibliography

1991: Tsai, Eugenie. Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings. New York, 1991: 180 repro.

1999: Robert Smithson Retrospective: works 1995-1973. Exh. cat. Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999: 280, no. 173.

2019: Meyer. James Sampson. The Art of Return: The Sixties & Contemporary Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019: 167-169, fig. 29; 328 (note 54).