New York 17
Date
1966
Artist
Man Ray, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1890–1976
Provenance
Galerie Europe, Paris, 19 July 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 19 July 1967-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, New Brunswick, New Jersey. "Vanguard American Sculpture 1913-1939," 16 September-4 November 1979, no. 147, ill. TOUR: WILLIAM HAYES ACKLAND ART CENTER, University of North Carolina, 4 December 1979-20 January 1980; JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, Omaha, Nebraska, 16 February-30 March; OAKLAND MUSEUM, 15 April-25 May 1980.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM. "The Machine Age: The Americanization of Art 1920-1941," 16 October 1982-15 February 1987. TOUR: MUSEUM OF ART, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 4 April-28 June; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 13 August-18 October; HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, 1 December 1987-14 February 1988.
MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS OF TOKYO through INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER OF WASHINGTON, DC (organizer). "Visions of Tomorrow: New York and American Industrialization in the 1920s-1930s," cat. no. 2, p. 177, ill. p. 36. TOUR: ISETAN MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo, Japan, 21 April-9 May 1988; DAIMARU MUSEUM OF ART, Osaka, 19 May-7 June; FUKUOKA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART, Fukuoka, 15 July-15 August; TOCHIGI PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Utsunomiya, 27 August-2 October.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Collection in Context: Metropolis in the Machine Age," 28 February-2 September 2002, no cat.
TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Chicago. "A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939," 17 April-27 June 2003. TOUR: MUSEE D'ART AMERICAIN, Giverny, France, 31 August-30 November; TACOMA ART MUSEUM, Washington, 18 December-28 March 2004.
TACOMA ART MUSEUM, Washington. "The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935," 29 January 2006 - 21 May 2006. TOUR: FIGGE ART MUSUEM, Iowa. 17 September 2005 - 1 January 2006.
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 25.
Published References
ZERBIB, MARCEL, ed. Man Ray (Paris: Galerie Europe, 1968), n.p.
K. R. "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," Burlington Magazine 116/860 (November 1974), ill. 144 (supplement).
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 717, ill. 849.
LINDSTROM, NAOMI. "Xul Solar's Synthesis," Americas 31/6-7 (June-July 1979), ill. p. 22.
UNSIGNED. "'Vanguard American Sculpture' at Ackland," N.C. Leader (Raleigh, NC: 13 December 1979), ill.
GREENBERG, BLUE. "Ackland Offers Major Sculpture Exhibit," Herald (Durham, NC: 23 December 1979), ill.
HORTON, CHARLES. "In the Vanguard," Chapel Hill Newspaper (30 December 1979), ill. p. 9E.
PHOENIX, JAMES. "Ackland Exhibit: A Galaxy of Sculpture," [publisher], ill. (misstated as work by Roszak).
ROMPALSKE, DOROTHY. "Sculptors' materials break with tradition," Daily Tar Heel (15 January 1980).
BROOKLYN MUSEUM. The Machine Age in America 1918-1941 (exhibition brochure, 1986), ill.
SCHLEIER, MERRILL. The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1986), fig. 52.
CRAVEN, WAYNE. American Art: History and Culture (Madison, Wisconsin: Brown & Benchmark, 1994), no. 32.10, ill.
SUSSMAN, ELISABETH, et al. City of Ambition: Artist and New York, 1900-1960 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, 1996), p. 139, colorpl. p. 53.
JENKINS, MARK. "Urban Visions Now Laid to Rest," Washington Post Weekend (15 March 2002), p. 56.
SHAW-EAGLE, JOANNA. "'Machine Age' rises in Hirshhorn exhibit," Washington Times (30 March 2002), p. D5.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Dada/Fluxus
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.190
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Chrome, bronze, brass, and paint
Dimensions
17 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (44.1 x 23.5 x 23.4 cm)
