From Continent to Continent

Object Details

Artist

Mario Merz, Italian, b. Milan, 1925–2003

Provenance

SteinGladstone Gallery, New York, to 26 April 1990

Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1990

Exhibition History

STEIN GLADSTONE, New York. "Anselmo, Chamberlain, Fabro, Flavin, Judd, Kounnellis, Long, Merz, Nauman,” 1990, no. 3, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Recent Acquisitions: 1989-1991," 8 October 1991-5 January 1992, unpublished checklist, no. 41.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present," 18 April-8 September 2013, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.

Published References

UNSIGNED. "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1466 (March 1991), p. 92.

WILSON, JANET. "Heavenly Hodgepodge: At the Hirshhorn, Trotting Out the 'Recent Acquisitions,'" Washington Post (25 October 1991), page B8.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1990

(1985)

Accession Number

90.6

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Steel, glass, neon, clay, metal cables, electrical wire, and transformer

Dimensions

66 x 135 x 135 in. (167.6 x 342.9 x 342.9 cm)

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School

Arte Povera

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_90.6

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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