Louise Nevelson

Sculpture and Drawings from the 1940s

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Artist File

Moderna museet, 8 sept.-14 okt. 1973

Martin Friedman

"This book surveys the stylistic evolution of Louise Nevelson's wood sculpture over three decades, focusing on the primal themes so identified with her art - 'table landscapes,' columns, boxes, reliefs and walls. More than sixty works are illustrated, ranging from small-scale containers (the 'Cryptics') to a sequence of monumental black walls that she has continued to produce since the mid-1950s. In addition, a number of recent photographs of Nevelson in her studio are included. Wood is indisputably Nevelson's medium and the exhibition documents her remarkable use of this material. Although she has recently made small, precise plexiglass cube constructions and overseen the translation of several of her earlier wood pieces into large coro-ten steel sculptures, the genesis and essence of her art is in her special use of wood, with which she creates seemingly weightless shapes whose iconography relates them to the past as well as to the present. She is an accumulator, a compulsive forager of abandoned and discarded fragments - chair backs, architectural scrollwork, brush handles, weathered planking, and sweepings of chips and slivers from the carpenter's floor. These become the ingredients of her spectral, architectural compositions which, painted a uniform color - black, white or, on rare occasions, gold - allude to a mysterious reality." -- Notes inside cover.

Catalog of an Exhibition Organized by Walker Art Center

Nevelson: Wood Sculptures

Diana MacKown

Work by Louise Nevelson from the Collection of Diana MacKown

A Friend Remembers, Louise Nevelson

Germano Celant

The first complete monograph dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was born in Kiev, Russia and immigrated to Rockland, Maine at the age of six. Following her marriage in 1920, Nevelson moved to New York City. It was during the mid-Fifties that she produced her first series of black wood landscape sculptures. Shortly thereafter, three New York City museums acquired her work: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. In 1967, the Whitney Museum organized Nevelsons first retrospective, and her work has been the subject of over 135 solo exhibitions.

The Fourth Dimension

Una E. Johnson

Prints and Drawings, 1953-1966

Whitney Museum of American Art

A tribute to the acclaimed American sculptor on her eightieth birthday presents the five major "environments" mounted by the Whitney Museum in her honor

Atmospheres and Environments

PaceWildenstein (Firm)

Sculpture of the '50s and '60s : March 18-April 27, 2002

Louise Nevelson discusses her thoughts and experience as a sculptor, her travels, family life, and encounters, and the people who have most affected her life and work

Taped Conversations with Diana MacKown

Dawns + Dusks

Hanover Gallery

First London Exhibition, 6 November-6 December 1963

Arthur C. Danto

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Harriet F. Senie

Michael Stanislawski

Gabriel de Guzman

Presents a catalog of an exhibition showcasing the works of the American sculptor and artist.

Constructing a Legend

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson

Bruno Corà

Louise Nevelson. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Louise Nevelson

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