Sanctuary

1. The artist; sold through Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 20, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, 74th American Exhibition, June 12–Aug. 1, 1982, cat. 47.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, May 17–Aug. 19, 1984, no cat. no.
• Chicago, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, Feb. 7¬–Apr. 4, 1987, no cat. no.
• Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, June 12–Aug. 23, 1987, cat. 20.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Martin Puryear, Nov. 2, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, cat. 17; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 5-May 10, 1992; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, July 26–Oct. 4, 1992; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 8, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993.
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Puryear, Nov. 4, 2007–Jan. 14, 2008, cat. 16; Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Feb. 24–May 18, 2008, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, June 22–Sept. 28, 2008; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 8, 2008–Jan, 25, 2009.
• New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, Oct. 9, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016, cat. 41; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5–May 1, 2016; Washington D.C.,
• Smithsonian Institution. American Art Museum, May 26–Sept. 4, 2016.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Dec. 15, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025, no cat. no.; Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Nov. 5, 2025–Apr. 6, 2026; London, Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences, June 10–Sept. 6, 2026; Brussels,
• KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Nov. 19, 2026–Mar. 7, 2027. (Chicago only).
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Martin Puryear: Nexus, Sept. 27, 2025-Feb. 8, 2026, cat. 22; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Apr. 12, 2026-Aug. 9, 2026; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Sept. 25, 2026-Jan. 17, 2027.

• A. James Speyer and Anne Rorimer, 74th American Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), 7, 39, cat. 47.
• Kynaston McShine, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), 259 (ill.).
• Hugh M. Davies, Helaine Posner, Martin Puryear, exh. cat. (Amherst: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984), 30 (ill.).
• Deven K. Golden, Patricia Fuller, and Judith Russi Kirshner, Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, exh. cat. (Chicago: Chicago Public Library and Department of Cultural Affairs, 1987), 10, 18, 29 (ill.).
• Ann Lee Morgan, “Martin Puryear: Sculpture as Elemental Expression,” New Art Examiner 14, no. 9 (May 1987): 28.
• Colin Westerbeck, “Martin Puryear: Chicago Public Library Cultural Council,” Artforum 25 (May 1987): 154.
• Susan Krane, Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, exh. cat. (Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987), 40 (ill.), 43, 61, cat. 20.
• Neal Benezra, Robert Storr, and James N. Wood, Martin Puryear, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), 30, 84, 85 (color ill.), 136, cat. 17, 145, 148, 150-151.
• Robert Hughes, “Delight in a Shaping hand,” Time, Mar. 2, 1992, 62.
• Michael Brenson and Enrique Juncosa, Martin Puryear, exh. cat. (Madrid: Fundación "La Caixa,” 1997), 22 (color ill.), fig. 6, as Santuario / Sanctuary.
• Susan F. Rossen, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 141.
• John Elderfield, Michael Auping, Elizabeth Reede, Richard J. Powell, and Jennifer Field, Martin Puryear, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007), 25-26, 130 (color ill.), 165, cat. 16, 175.

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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