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Untitled (Stacks) 1968 Stainless steel and amber Plexiglas, 10 units
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Rothko, Mark, 1964-1968, undated Biographical or Historical Note: Russian-born artist Alexander Liberman was the influential art director of Vogue magazine from 1943 to 1962, then editorial director of Condé Nast publications until 1994. As an artist, Liberman worked in paint, large-scale sculpture, and photography. He photographed contemporary artists and other cultural figures, friends, family, and historical sites from about 1925 until 1998. He published several books of his photographs, including The Artist in His Studio (1960, 1988)
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Throne for the The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly James Hampton's entire artistic output is this single work, which he constructed for more than fourteen years in a rented garage, transforming its drab interior into a heavenly vision. The Throne and its associated components are made from discarded materials and found objects such as old furniture, cardboard cutouts, and light bulbs. All were scavenged from secondhand shops, the streets, or the federal office buildings in which Hampton worked as a janitor. To complete each element, Hampton used shimmering metallic foils and brilliant purple paper (now faded to tan) to evoke spiritual awe and splendor.
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Monogram, second state Second state of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Monogram” (1955–59; second state 1956–58) in his Pearl Street studio , New York, NY, United States, circa 1958. Photo: Rudy Burckhardt
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Untitled (Cross and Trees) Crayon, pencil, and marker drawing of a cross and trees on a flattened shoebox.
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Bel Air Trilogy: Circle Rod, 2000–2011 One of three minimal stainless steel rod sculptures within a set of three meticulously restored 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air automobiles. The three Bel Airs in the sculpture group are a matched set, each painted in the signature two-tone color scheme of "Gypsy Red" and "Shoreline Beige".
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East New York Shrine signed, inscribed and dated 'HOLY MOTHER LOADED WITH GRACE PLEASE HELP JEANIE SONJA AND DAN FLAVIN 1962-1966' (upper edge)
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Untitled Collage (with bread lock) For almost 40 years, beginning in the early 1960s, New York artist John Evans (b. 1932) produced a collage each day, cutting and pasting the fragments of the day onto the painted pages of his diary. Evans used stamps, labels, photographs, fabric and found objects, creating a visual and material record of the last four decades of the 20th century.
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Coca-Cola Plan Combine: graphite on paper, oil on three Coca-Cola bottles, wood newel cap, and cast metal wings on wood structure
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Sky Cathedral Sky Cathedral consists of boxes stacked against a wall, each compartment filled with wooden scraps including moldings, dowels, spindles, and furniture parts.
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Box Candy This sculpture is created from salvaged, crushed, and welded steel parts of American automobiles, primarily from the 1950s and 60s, such as Fords, Chevrolets, and Cadillacs. He utilized fenders, bumpers, and chassis for their pre-painted, industrial colors. Compressed pieces of automobile sheet metal used here are painted by the original manufacturer in shades of green, off-white, brown, and sky blue.
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Seagram Murals (1958–1959) In 1958, Mark Rothko was commissioned to produce a series of works for the exclusive dining room of the opulent Four Seasons restaurant in the newly-built Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue designed by architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. He constructed a scaffold in his studio to match the site’s dimensions, allowing him to paint at scale.
Rothko spent two years working on the project, producing a total of 30 panels, seven of which were to fit together in the restaurant. Almost two years after receiving the commission for $35,000 (roughly $395,000 today), he abruptly returned the money, and withdrew the works. The nine works included in this set are the most significant grouping. The arrangement, lighting and exhibition were agreed upon by Rothko in detailed negotiations with the director of the Tate Gallery. The paintings arrived at the Tate on February 25, 1970, the day of Rothko’s suicide in New York.
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Untitled (Stack) Although it is hung on a wall like a painting, Untitled (Stack) projects nearly three feet from the wall and climbs like rungs on a ladder from floor to ceiling. It is made of galvanized iron boxes, all identical and of equal importance. The sides are covered with commercially available green lacquer paint typically used to customize Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Pieces from this era often featured stampings reading "JO JUDD BERNSTEIN BROS. INC
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Untitled (Smiling Woman) Nellie Mae Rowe transformed a Sara Lee poundcake lid into a canvas for a brightly colored drawing of a smiling woman with bright, orange-yellow skin, outlined in green and black against a pastel blue crayon background.
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Untitled collage From 1964 to 2000, Evans made daily collages in a bound notebook. These collages often include ephemera picked up in the street near his Lower East Side apartment. In this collage, evans has composed an psychedelic gold white and black pattern around a label featuring the logo of ASG (American Saint Gobain), a US based glass manufacturer established in 1959. The label reads “ASG Creative Ideas in Glass, LUSTRAGLASS, Single Strength, B, Made in U.S.A.”
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Bel Air Trilogy, 2000–2011 Three minimal, highly polished stainless steel rod sculptures within three meticulously restored 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air automobiles with minor customizations by the artist. Highly popular because of its crisp, clean design and classic lines, this renowned model often featured a signature two-tone color scheme; The three cars exhibited in the sculpture group are a matched set, each painted in “Gypsy Red” and “Shoreline Beige” presenting a juxtaposition between classic car culture and austere, geometric forms.
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly is a complex work of art consisting of approximately 180 individual pieces created by James Hampton over a period of fourteen years. Hampton made the array based on several religious visions that prompted him to prepare for Christ's return to earth.
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Untitled, 1968–1969 This work is made from declassified industrial resin which became available to artists in Southern California during the postwar period. This translucent object is an early breakthrough work of the California Light and Space Movement of which the artist was the only female member.
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Untitled (to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow) Flavin began working with commercially available fluorescent light tubes in 1963 which were manufactured by Leviton Manufacturing Co. This light sculpture derives its palette from Wheeling Peachblow, a type of Victorian art glass manufactured by Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. in Wheeling, West Virginia, that shades from yellow to deep red, producing a delicate peach color in between.