Warrior's Leg (from the series Technological Reliquaries)
Date
(1966-1967)
Artist
Paul Thek, American, b. Brooklyn, New York, 1933–1988
Provenance
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, to 25 July 1990
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1990
Exhibition History
BROOKE ALEXANDER GALLERY, New York. "Paul Thek: Sculpture 1965-1976," 31 May-30 June 1990.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Recent Acquisitions: 1989-1991," 8 October 1991-5 January 1992, unpublished checklist, no. 66.
WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Rotterdam. "Paul Thek: The Wonderful World That Almost Was," 3 June-8 October 1995, ill. p. 52. Tour: NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, 7 December-18 February 1996; FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES, Barcelona, 21 June-2 September; MAC GALERIES CONTEMPORAINES DES MUSEES DE MARSEILLES, 15 October-15 December.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
Published References
KALINA, RICHARD. "Real Dead," Arts 66 (December 1991): 52, ill. p. 50.
BUCHHOLZ, DANIEL. Paul Thek (Turin: Castello di Rivara, 1992): ill. p. 13.
FLOOD, RICHARD, Gary Garrels, and Ann Temkin. Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999): ill. p. 18.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 211, p. 234.
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School
American Post-Minimal Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 1990
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
90.9
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Wax, leather, paint, metal, plaster, wood, and plexiglass
Dimensions
26 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (66.7 × 36.8 × 21 cm)
