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Ibram Lassaw

The Planets

1954

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Ibram Lassaw

The Planets

1954

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, iron alloy, 39 1/2 x 36 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (100.3 x 92.7 x 49.5 cm)
Credit Line Charles and Elsa Hutzler Memorial Collection
Object Number 1956.293
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1956; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York
Museum of Modern Art, "12 Americans," May 1956.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, "Works by Lassaw," May 13-June 17, 1957.
Kassel, Germany, "Documenta II," July 3-October 11, 1959 (through Museum of Modern Art)
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., "International Sculpture Exhibition," September 17-October 31, 1963.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century Paintings & Sculpture," June 24-September 7, 1969.
The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York, "Ibram Lassaw Retrospective," June 8-July 22, 1973.
The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Sculptors of the 50's," January 6-February 15, 1976; circulated to Phoenix Art Museum, March 5-April 11, 1976.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, "Ibram Lassaw, August 13-September 25, 1988.
Oliver Shell, BMA, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July - February 2011
Eleanor Spencer, 'Contemporary Sculpture in the Hutzler Memorial Collection,' "BMA News," April 1957, pp. 1, 4-6, ill. pp. 4-5.
'Object of the Week,' "Sunday Sun," magazine (brown section), February 17, 1957, ill.
"Documenta II," Kassel, Germany: 1959, p. 57, col. 2 (top)
Phyllis Plous, "7+5 Sculptors in the 50's," Santa Barbara: University of California Press, 1976, no. 33, p. 61, ill. p. 64.
"Space Explorations: Ibram Lassaw," "A Retrospective Survey 1929-1988," East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 1988, no. 12, p. 37, ill. fig. 6, p. 6.
Roberta Smith, 'Ibram Lassaw: The Sculptor as Explorer,' "New York Times," Gallery View, September 11, 1988.
BMA Today, Summer 2010, cover, ill.
"Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," BMA Today, Fall 2010, p.18, ill.

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Ibram Lassaw

American, born Egypt, 1913-2003

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