Art Institute of Chicago

Aluminum Chair

Scott Burton · 1980/81

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold through Max Protetch Gallery, New York, to Raymond J. Learsy, Sharon, CT, Nov. 23, 1982 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold Sotheby’s Contemporary Art from the Collection of Raymond J. Learsy, Nov. 17, 1992, lot 10, to the Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 14, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Developments in Recent Sculpture, July 22-Sept. 27, 1981, not in cat. (edition 1 of 3).
Art Institute of Chicago, 74th American Exhibition, June 12–Aug 1, 1982, cat. 17 (edition 1 of 3).
Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, Scott Burton Chairs, Mar. 11¬¬–Apr. 20, 1983, cat. 35; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10–Aug. 21, 1983; Fort Worth, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Sept. 24–Nov. 6, 1983; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Nov. 12, 1983–Jan. 9, 1984. (edition 1 of 3)
Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, Mar. 15–June 27, 1984, cat. 8; Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Aug. 29–Oct. 21, 1984; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Nov. 6–Dec. 30, 1984; Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire Museum, Jan. 12–Mar. 3, 1985; Poughkeepsie, NY, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Mar. 9-Apr. 12, 1985; Brattleboro, VT, Brattleboro Art Center (now Brattleboro Museum & Art Center), Apr. 26–June 23, 1985, Baltimore, MD, Maryland Institute College of Art, July 1–Aug. 4, 1985. (edition 1 of 3)
London, Tate Gallery, Scott Burton, Sept. 25–Dec. 8, 1985, cat. 2. (edition 2 of 3)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design, Sept. 19, 1985–Feb. 16, 1986, no cat. no., fig. 6.9. (edition 1 of 3).
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Scott Burton, Dec. 7, 1986–Feb. 1, 1987, cat. 24. (edition 1 of 3).
Los Angeles, Lannan Foundation, Floored: Sculpture from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Apr. 8–Aug. 13, 1995, no cat., checklist no. 14. (edition 1 of 3)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, Oct. 28, 2000-Feb. 11, 2001, cat.3.47; New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 20-July 15, 2001; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Aug. 23-Nov. 4, 2001; Miami, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Dec. 15, 2001-Apr. 7, 2002; Bloomfield Hills, MI, Cranbrook Art Museum, June 1-Aug. 11, 2002; London Design Museum as The Adventures of Aluminum: From Jewelry to Jets, Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 3, 2003, as Chair. (edition 1 of 3).
St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Scott Burton: Shape Shift, Sept. 6, 2024-Feb. 2, 2025, no cat. no., Chicago, Wrightwood 659, Oct. 3, 2025-Jan. 31, 2026. (edition 1 of 3).

Literature

Published references

A. James Speyer and Anne Rorimer, 74th American Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), 7, 22, cat. 17 (ill.).
Marge Goldwater, Robert Stearns, and Charles F. Stuckey, Scott Burton Chairs, exh. cat. (Cincinnati: The Contemporary Arts Center; Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1983), 14, ill. 35 (ill.), 15, 22, cat. 35, 31 (ill.), 36-37 (ill.).
Judith Hoos Fox, Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, exh. cat (Providence, R.I: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1984), 13, 41 (ill., detail), 43, cat. 8 (ill.).
Alan Bowness, Scott Burton, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1985), 10, cat. 2 (color ill.), 24, cat. 2.
Lisa Phillips and David A. Hanks, High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New York: Summit Books, 1985), 202, fig. 6.9 (color ill.), 212, fig. 6.9.
Peter Schjeldahl, “Scott Burton un romantisme réaliste et austere,” Art Press 90 (March 1985): 33 (ill.)
Brenda Richardson, Scott Burton, and Trish Waters, Scott Burton, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1986), 42, 43, cat. 24 (ill.), 77, cat. 24.
Lannan Foundation, Floored: Sculpture from the Lannan Foundation Collection, exh. checklist (Los Angeles: Lannan Foundation, 1995), n.p., no. 14.
Stephanie Skestos, “Checklist of the Lannan Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 1 (1999), 86, cat. 6.
Sarah C. Nichols, Elisabeth R. Agro, Elizabeth Teller, and Paola Antonelli, Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000), 39, 286, cat. 3.47 (color ill.), as Chair.
Ana Maria Torres, Scott Burton, exh. cat (Valencia: IVAM, Institut Valencià d’art Modern, 2004), 160 (color ill.), 161 (ill.), 309.
Jess Willcox and Heather Alexis Smith, eds., Scott Burton: Shape Shift, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025), 9 (color ill.), 18-19, 81 (color ill.), 132.

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