Linear Construction in Space No.2 by Naum Gabo
Art Institute of Chicago

Linear Construction in Space No.2

Naum Gabo · 1949-50

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; acquired by Florene M. Schoenborn (1903–1995) and Samuel A. Marx (1885–1964), Chicago, by 1952 [Nash, and Merkert 1985]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings, Mar. 17–May 6, 1951, cat. 18.
  • Springfield, MA, Connecticut Building, Eastern States Show: Connecticut Building, Sept. 16–22, 1951, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 60th Annual American Exhibition, Oct. 25–Dec.16, 1951, cat. 57.

Literature

Published references

  • Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951) n.p., cat. 18.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, 60th Annual American Exhibition Paintings and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951),n.p., cat 33.
  • Naum Gabo and Herbert Read, Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings (London, Lund Humphries, 1957), n.p., pl. 87 (ill.), 184.
  • Herbert C Merillat, Modern Sculpture: The New Old Masters (New York: Dood Mead, 1974), 149, (ill.).
  • Laura Sarff and Jan Harem, Symmography: Linear Thread Design (Worcester: Davis, 1979), 73, (ill.).
  • Naum Gabo, Steven A. Nash, and Jörn Merkert, Naum Gabo Sixty Years of Constructivism Including Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1985), 235, cat. 55.2.

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