Louise Nevelson

Landscape

1949-1959

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Louise Nevelson

Landscape

Louise Nevelson

Landscape

1949-1959

Physical Qualities Wood, paint, metal, 18 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 15 in. (47 x 67.9 x 38.1 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Sue G. Baker, Baltimore

Object Number 2001.439

This sculpture is made from shaped wood elements joined together and unified by a coat of black paint. The combination of curved and geometric forms evokes the increasing urbanization and construction in 20th-century New York City, where the natural form of the land and rivers was reshaped into the manmade global city of today. Sculptor Louise Nevelson considered herself “an architect of shadows” and often reused wood discarded from construction sites found in her neighborhood. She lived on East 30th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan when this piece was made.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; purchased in the 1960s by Sue Baker; Sue Baker

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Rembrandt to Rivers: Art Assembled From Maryland,' October 3-December 5, 1971

BMA, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-

Oliver Shell, BMA, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July - February 2011

John-Paul Stonard, "Abstraction in Sculpture," "The Burlington Magazine," November 2010, CLII, p. 769.

Inscribed: Metal plaque bearing inscription 'Louise Nevelson' on front side of base; Tag bearing inscription 'Sculpture - Landscape, Fine Arts 1' on underside of base