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Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu, and
Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk.
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JB Blunk, Cypress chair, 1973-74. Courtesy JB Blunk Estate. Photograph by Angus Mill.
This is the first museum exhibition to pair these virtuosic artists, whose experiments across a range of handcrafted media—starting with clay—yielded some of the most iconic works of the postwar studio craft movement.
Louise Nevelson, Orfeo: Gold Throne I & II, 1984. Gold leaf on wood. 36 3/4 x 35 x 18 1/2 inches. Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Gift of Louise Nevelson, 1985.23.29 & 30.
Featuring more than fifty works, the exhibition traces Nevelson’s artistic evolution, from her early figurative paintings to her iconic abstract wood constructions, collages, and unique handcrafted jewelry.
Main event image: Louise Nevelson, The Endless Column (detail), 1969 and 1985. Wood and found wooden objects painted black. Left: 110 x 22 x 9 1/8 inches, Center: 128 1/8 x 59 x 11 1/8 inches, Right: 115 x 21 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Bequest of Nathan Berliawsky, 1980.35.30.