
Jasper Johns
Three Flags
1960
Not on View
Carl Andre
1975
The Way West challenges the traditional nature of sculpture: while it has the fundamental components of mass, volume and gravity, it is reduced to two identical cuboids. Any trace of the artist’s creative hand is missing. Its banality and the absence of a base negate the monumentality which has historically been one of the vocations of sculpture. Its title, The Way West, is taken from the epic American western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., which became the basis for a film in 1967. The supine trunk of wood in fact "points" westwards.
Not on View
Artist | Carl Andre |
Date | 1975 |
Medium | Western red cedar |
Dimensions | 2 units, each: 30.5 x 30.5 x 91.4 cm; overall: 91.5 x 90.6 x 60.5 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012 |
Accession | 2012.22 |
Collection | Schulhof Collection |
Type | Sculpture |
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Jasper Johns
1960
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Mark Rothko
1968
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Robert Delaunay
1912
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Vasily Kandinsky
1913
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