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Untitled (Cassiopeia)

Vija Celmins

Untitled (Cassiopeia)

1972

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Vija Celmins

Untitled (Cassiopeia)

1972

Physical Qualities Graphite on acrylic-prepared paper, Sheet: 304 × 376 mm. (11 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gertrude Rosenthal Bequest Fund
Object Number 1991.24
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1991; McKee Gallery
BMA, "Marking the Decades: Drawings 1960-1990," 5 February - 19 April 1992.

Jay Fisher, "Three Drawings," BMA, 5 October - 18 December 1994.

"Vija Celmins Retrospective," organized by Institute Of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia, drawing shown only at Walker Art Center, June 8, 1993 - July 25,1993; Whitney Museum of American Art, September 8,1993 - December 31, 1993.

Beauty Now," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1999-January 18, 2000; circulated to Haus der Kunst, Munich, February 11-April 30, 2000.

"Vija Celmins: Drawings," Centre Pompidou, October 25, 2006 - January 8, 2007; circulated to The Hammer Museum, January 28, 2007 - April 22, 2007, ill. p.87.

"Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 1, 2018 - March 31, 2019; circulated to the Met Breuer, September 24, 2019 - January 12, 2020.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 249.
Robin Coblentz, "The Infinite Universe of Vija Celmins." Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (Spring 2006), illus. p. 5.
Garrels, Gary, ed. Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Artist

Vija Celmins

b. 1937

American, born Latvia 1938
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