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Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
Through September 5
Exhibitions & Events
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Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Hanging Islands

conceived 1966, refabricated 2015

Charles Ross

Associated Names

Charles Ross

Sculptor, American, born 1937

Long prisms hang in rows within a nickel-gray room in this installation. The prisms come toward us in this view. A row of long prisms hang closely together to our right, and shorter prisms are hung in groups farther away from us. They cast long silvery-gray and black shadows on the ground, and hints of rainbows stripe the walls.

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Artwork overview

Medium

acrylic and metal (36 prisms)
Credit Line

Gift of Virginia Dwan
Dimensions

overall (variable): 426.72 × 426.72 × 7.62 cm (168 × 168 × 3 in.)
gross weight: 158.759 kg (350 lb.)
Accession Number

2016.19.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Virginia Dwan, New York; gift 2015 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dwan, Virginia

Exhibition History

2018

Spaces: Works from the Collection, 1966-1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, no catalogue.

Wikidata ID

Q63863819

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