Nancy Stevenson Graves and Tallix Foundry, Peekskill, New York
Gravilev
1968
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
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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