one of May 27, 1963 by Dan Flavin
Art Institute of Chicago

one of May 27, 1963

Dan Flavin · 1963

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist. Hanford Yang, New York. Marco Buitoni by 1971 [Rauh 1973]. Sold through the John Weber Gallery, New York, to Donna and Howard Stone, Chicago, May 30, 1995 [invoice in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 2023.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Green Gallery, New Work (Contemporary American Group Show), Oct. 24–Nov. 14, no cat.
  • Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections From the Collection of Hanford Yang, Sept. 29–Dec. 22, 1968, cat. 22 as Red Fluorescent With Ten Red Bulbs.
  • Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Oct. 3, 2004–Jan. 9, 2005, cat. 23; Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Feb. 27–June 5, 2005 (Preview days Feb. 25-26); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 2–Oct. 30, 2005 (Members Opening July 1st); London, Hayward Gallery, Jan. 19–Apr. 2, 2006; Paris, June 9–Oct. 8, 2006; Munich, Nov. 23, 2006–Mar. 4, 2007 (extended to Apr. 9); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 13–Aug. 12, 2007 (Chicago, London, Paris, Munich, Los Angeles only).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, June 25–Sept. 19, 2010, no cat.no.

Literature

Published references

  • Max Kozloff, “The Further Adventures of American Sculpture,” Arts Magazine, 39, no. 5 (Feb. 1965): 26 (ill.), as Construction with Red Florescent and Incandescent Bulbs.
  • Mel Bochner, “Less Is Less (for Dan Flavin),” Art and Artists, 1 no. 9 (Dec. 1966): 27 (ill.), as Untitled, 1964.
  • Larry Aldrich, Selections From the Collection of Hanford Yang, exh. cat. (Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1968), cat. 22 as Red Fluorescent With Ten Red Bulbs.
  • Emily Rauh, drawings and diagrams 1963–1972 by Dan Flavin, exh. cat. (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1973), 12, 14.
  • Michael Govan, Tiffany Bell, Brydon Smith, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2004), 33, 34, 36, fig.22 (color ill.), 220, cat. 23 (color ill.).
  • James Rondeau and Judith Russi Kirshner, Contemporary collecting: the Donna and Howard Stone collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 12, 13, fig. 1 (color ill.), 22, 48–49 (color ill.), 140 (ill.).

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