The Jazz Wall

1. The artist; sold through Stable Gallery, New York, to Harry N. Abrams, Feb. 24, 1964 [According to affidavit from the artist and sales and accounts document from Stable Gallery; copies in curatorial object file]; returned to the artist, New York, Oct. 1, 1964 [letter; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Sidney Janis Gallery, New York [via the Arts Club of Chicago], to Leonard J. and Ruth P. Horwich, Chicago, Dec. 20, 1965 [invoice from the Arts Club of Chicago; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 6, 2016.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, L’Interdit, the Gotham Hotel, New York, Apr. 1, 1963–early Feb. 1964.
• New York, Stable Gallery, Marisol: Recent Sculpture, Feb. 25–Mar. 21, 1964, no cat. (as The Mural).
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: Recent acquisitions by members of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, May 8–June 16, 1964, cat. 102 (as The Jazz Band).
• Arts Club of Chicago, Marisol, Dec. 14, 1965–Jan. 15, 1966, cat. 17.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Decades in Dialogue: Perspectives on the MCA Collection, Feb. 27–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
• Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Marisol: A Retrospective, Oct. 7, 2023-Jan. 21, 2024, no cat. no.; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Feb. 24-June 2, 2024; Buffalo, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, July 12, 2024-Jan. 6, 2025; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 23-July 6, 2025.
• Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Marisol, Oct. 1, 2025-Feb. 22, 2026, cat. 20; Kunsthaus Zürich, Apr. 17-Aug. 23, 2026, cat. 20; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Oct. 1, 2026-Mar. 31, 2027; Salzburg, Museum de Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Apr. 23-Oct. 3, 2027.

• "The Fasion Independent," Harper's Bazaar, 96, no. 3023 (Oct. 1963), 200 (ill.).
• Lawrence Campbell, “Marisol’s Magical Mixtures,” Art News, 63, 1 (Mar. 1964), 38.
• lawrence Campbell, "The Creative Eye of the Artist Marisol," Cosmopolitan, 156, no. 6 (June 1964), 65 (ill.), 68.
• Louis Faurer, “Discerino Dressing,” Vogue, 144, 2 (Aug. 1964), 70, 71 (ill.), 72 (ill.), 73 (ill.).
• Brian O’Doherty, “Marisol: The Enigma of the Self-Image,” New York Times, Mar. 1, 1964, p. X23.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: recent acquisitions by members of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964), 16, 51 (ill. as The Jazz Band).
• Grace Glueck, “It’s Not Pop, It’s Not Op—It’s Marisol,” New York Times Magazine, Mar. 7, 1965, 34, 35 (ill.), 45, 46, 48, 50.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Marisol, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1965), n.p. (ill.).
• Edward Barry, “The Art of Marisol: Intriguing Objects Fashioned of Wood,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 22, 1965, B9 (ill.).
• Leonard Feather, Encyclopedia of Jazz (in the Sixties) Volume One: The Blues, 33 rpm album (Verve Records, 1967), front cover (color ill.).
• John Baur, “The Rich Turmoil of Contemporary Art: Todays art and how it got that way,” Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Apr. 23, 1967, 44 (ill.).
• Nancy Grove, Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture, exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 20.

I Hate You

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Catalpa Maiden about to Touch Herself

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The Kiss

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Hand and Purse

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Diptych (top section)

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Cultural Head

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The Death of Head and Leg

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Diptych (lower section)

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