Donald Judd
Untitled
1971
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Donald Judd
Untitled
1971
Physical Qualities
Graphite on paper
, Sheet: 495 × 632 mm. (19 1/2 × 24 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore
Object Number
2015.170
Sculptor Donald Judd spent much of his career creating box-like forms in copper, aluminum, concrete, and plywood. One of Judd’s plywood boxes is on view in Gallery 9. Judd carefully considered the scale of his sculptures, purposely relating the dimensions of his boxes to the size of the human body. Viewers are encouraged to approach the objects, walk around them, and look down into the boxes to discover how the interior of one box differs from that of another. In this way, Judd’s work engages both the observer’s eyes and body in the experience of art.
With only a few simple, clean lines, this drawing elegantly describes the doubled geometry of a box within a box and provides notations about the size of the form to be built. As with other artists associated with Minimalism, Judd did not construct his own sculpture, but provided technical drawings and specifications to a fabricator.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Sue Cohen, Baltimore
Works from the Suzanne F. Cohen Collection
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "PLYWOOD 1/2 or 3/4"; lower right in graphite: "Judd 72"