Art Object Page

Minion, 1981

Medium

painted ponderosa pine

Dimensions

overall: 142.24 × 127 × 4.45 cm (56 × 50 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2020.114.1

Artists / Makers

Martin Puryear (sculptor) American, born 1941

Image Use

(McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.);[1] purchased 3 April 1982 by Carl [1932-2020] and Nancy Gewirz, Bethesda, Maryland; gift 2020 to NGA.

[1] The name of the McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery was originally Protetch-McIntosh Gallery; it later became the Nancy Drysdale Gallery.

Gewirz, Carl, Mr. and Mrs.
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery

2021: Cooper, Harry. "Martin Puryear, Minion." Art for the Nation no. 63 (Spring/Summer 2021): 8, fig. 8.

Minion, 1981