Birdcalls

1. The artist; by exchange with Sol LeWitt, Chester, CT, 1984 [this and the following according to email from Paula Cooper Gallery, Apr. 2, 2026; copy in curatorial object file]; transferred to the LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT, 1984; sold through Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 2, 2026.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, L’église du 36 rue d’Ulm, A Pierre et Marie: Une exposition en travaux (To Peter and Mary: An Exhibition in Progress), Mar. 20–June 1, 1983, not in cat.
• New York, St. Mark’s Church, The Danspace Project, In Order to Get a Job You Need Experience. In Order to Get Experience You Need a Job, June 30–July 3, 1983, no cat.
• Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Louise Lawler/Matrix 77, Feb. 23–Apr. 22, 1984, no cat. no.
• Banff, Alberta, Canada, Sally Borden Lounge, Birdcalls, Mar. 7–Aug. 24, 1984, no cat.
• Long Beach, CA, The University Art Museum, California State University, From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Oct. 16–Nov. 11, 1984, no cat. no,; Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Jan. 26 – March 3, 1985; Scranton, PA, Everhart Museum, Apr. 27–June 8, 1985; The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, July 9–Aug. 26, 1985; Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Mar. 5, 1986–Apr. 16, 1986, as Birdcalls, 1972, recorded 1983.
• Los Angeles, Margo Leavin and Gemini G.E.L. Galleries, What Price Art?, May 9–15, 1986, no cat.
• Paris, Rond Point Lafayette, Caisse De Depot bank building, Birdcalls II, 1990, no cat.
• La Roche-sur-Yon, France, Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, L’insoutenable légèreté de l’art, June 21–Sept. 15, 1991, no cat; Poitiers, France, Musée de Poitiers, Birdcalls, Oct. 15–Jan. 5, 1991, no cat.
• Hamburg, Hamburger Woche der bildenden Kunst, Infrasound. Stadt. Geräusche, Oct. 13—Nov. 5, 1995, cat info forthcoming.
• Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Matrix 20 Years, January–March 1995, no cat.
• Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art comtemporain, Comme un oiseau, June 19–Oct. 13, 1996, no cat. no, as Birdcalls, 1972.
• New York, Susan Inglett, Now Playing, Jan. 11–Feb. 17, 2001, no cat.

• Andrea Miller-Keller, Louise Lawler/Matrix 77, exh. brochure (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984), n.p.
• Andrea Miller-Keller, From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, exh. cat. (New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1984), n.p. (ill.), as Birdcalls, 1972, recorded 1983.
• Daniel Arasse, Comme un oiseau, exh. cat. (Paris: Gallimard/Electa, 1996), 187, as Birdcalls, 1972.
• Éric Mézil, Collections d’artistes, exh. cat. (Arles: Actes Sud, 2001), n.p., 177 (color ill.).
• George Baker and Philipp, Louise Lawler and Others, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2004), 127.
• Helen Molesworth, Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (Looking Back), exh. cat. (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2006), 50 (color ill.), 51, 109 (color ill.), 130-132.
• Francesco Bonami, Silence: Listen to the Show, exh. cat. (Milan: Electa, 2007), 45 (ill.), as Portrait, 1982.
• Ellen Seifermann and Christine Kintisch, Romantischer Konzeptualismus (Romantic conceptualism), exh. cat. (Bielefeld: Kerber, 2007), 104-106, 107 (color ill.).
• Barry A. Rosenberg, Ornithology: Looking at Birds, exh. cat. (Storrs, CT: Department of Art & Art History, University of Connecticut, 2008), pending.
• Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates, and Lucy Raven, The Marfa Sessions, exh. cat. (Marfa, TX: Ballroom Marfa, 2008), 31 (ill.), 36.
• Cosima Rainer, See this sound: Versprechungen von Bild und Ton = Promises in sound and vision, exh. cat. (Cologne: König; Linz Lentos Kunstmuseum, 2009), 255, 261 (color ill.), 311.
• Stacey Allen, “Role Refusal: On Louise Lawler’s Birdcalls,” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 20, no. 20 (Spring 2009): 108 (color ill.), 109-113.

Monogram

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Alligator

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Blume

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Untitled

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Once There was a Little Boy

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All Those Eyes

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Beige

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Pollock and Tureen

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