Mark di Suvero, Turning (on a) Point: Praise for Elohim Adonai

with Jed Morse, Chief Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Mark di Suvero’s sculpture, Praise for Elohim Adonai, made in 1966, marks a crucial point in the artist’s development. Recovering from a horrific accident that left him partially paralyzed,
di Suvero was reinventing himself as a sculptor and creating a sculptural vocabulary that gave voice to his experience and established a new paradigm for the medium. Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who was then curator at the Museum, selected the sculpture to be included in the exhibition 7 for 67, works by Contemporary American Sculptors, out of which Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Champ Jr. gave it to the Museum. Jed Morse, chief curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and organizer of the recent Mark di Suvero survey, Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper, elucidates the circumstances surrounding the creation of this important work. This talk celebrates the reinstallation of this sculpture, after extensive conservation, in front of the East Building.

Registration is required. RSVP before January 31 to 314.655.5390 or collectors.circle@slam.org

Collectors Circle programs at the Saint Louis Art Museum are presented by the Betsy and Thomas Patterson Foundation