Nancy Stevenson Graves and Tallix Foundry, Peekskill, New York
Gravilev
1968-1979
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Bronze with polychrome patina on brass and painted steel base, 88 x 143 x 32 in. (223.6 x 363.3 x 81.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Ryda and Robert H. Levi, Baltimore; and partial gift of Jerry Sherman, Baltimore
Object Number
1999.342
Skeleton of camel, cast in bronze with polychome patina, mounted on brass pole attached to steel base with red painted wheels.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase/gift, 1999; Dr. Jerry Sherman by purchase 1984 from the artist through M. Knoedler & Company, New York
'Nancy Graves: Recent Sculpture and Painting,' M. Knoedler & Co., New York, April 4-April 23, 1981, (No. 4 in exhibition handlist)
The Baltimore Museum of Art (temporary loan), November 16, 1984 to May, 1985 Fort Worth Art Museum, 'The Sculpture of Nancy Graves', traveled to: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 19-April 26, 1987, Fort Worth Art Museum, May 17-July 12, 1987, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 29-october 26, 1987, The Brooklyn Museum, December 10, 1987-February 29, 1988
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: Painting and Sculpture since 1960', May 27-July 22, 1990
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 'Nancy Graves': 'In Memoriam', March 20-April 30, 1996
The Baltimore Museum of Art (temporary loan), November 16, 1984 to May, 1985 Fort Worth Art Museum, 'The Sculpture of Nancy Graves', traveled to: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 19-April 26, 1987, Fort Worth Art Museum, May 17-July 12, 1987, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 29-october 26, 1987, The Brooklyn Museum, December 10, 1987-February 29, 1988
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: Painting and Sculpture since 1960', May 27-July 22, 1990
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 'Nancy Graves': 'In Memoriam', March 20-April 30, 1996
E.A. Carmean, et. al., The Sculpture of Nancy Graves: A Catalogue Raisonne, Hudson Hills Press, New York, in association with The Forth Worth Art Museum, Cat. 57, illustrated, p.77.
Inscribed: Inscribed on third vertebra from skull: 'N.S. Graves 1969-1980', and above, foundry mark (T and X crossed) for Tallix
Artist
Nancy Stevenson Graves
1938–1994
born Pittsfield, MA 1939; died New York, NY 1995
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