New Continent
- Date
- 1962
- Material
- Painted wood
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 244
- Dimensions
- 77 3/4 x 121 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (197.5 x 309.2 x 25.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase, by exchange and funds given by Martha I. Love, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Rosborough Jr., the Weil Charitable Foundation, Henry B. Pflager, Jane and Warren Shapleigh, The Lea-Thi-Ta Study Group, and Nancy W. Gilmartin
- Rights
- © 2013 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 14:1967
NOTES
Louise Nevelson assembled found architectural elements such as chair legs, staircase posts, and moldings within 36 wooden compartments then painted the construction white. She juxtaposed the geometric grid of the boxes with a lyrical arrangement of curves, textures, light, and shadow. The urban environment of Manhattan provided the artist with the discarded objects that were the building blocks of her sculptural practice. She once said, “When I look at the city from my point of view, I see New York City as a great big sculpture.”
Provenance
- 1967
Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA [1]
1967 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Pace Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Pace Gallery lent "New Continent" to the 1967 Whitney exhibition, "Louise Nevelson" [Gordon, John. "Louise Nevelson." New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967].
[2] Invoice from Pace Gallery, April 6, 1967 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and Associate Members of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, June 8, 1967.
Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA [1]
1967 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Pace Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Pace Gallery lent "New Continent" to the 1967 Whitney exhibition, "Louise Nevelson" [Gordon, John. "Louise Nevelson." New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967].
[2] Invoice from Pace Gallery, April 6, 1967 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and Associate Members of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, June 8, 1967.
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