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Object Details
- Artist
- Ron Mueck, Australian, b. Melbourne, 1958
- Provenance
- Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, to 14 February 2001
- Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and in Honor of Robert Lehrman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1997--2004, for his extraordinary leadership and unstinting service to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Exhibition History
- ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, Buffalo. "Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture," 20 April-7 September 2004, no. 7, ill.
- GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS, Paris "Melancholy: Genius and Madness in Occident," 13 October 2005-16 January 2006, color ill. p. 20. Tour: NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, 16 February-7 May.
- BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART. "Ron Mueck Sculpture," 3 November 2006-4 February 2007. Tour: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa, 2 March-6 May; MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH, 24 June-21 October.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
- FLAG ART FOUNDATION, New York. "Size Does Matter," 5 February-27 May 2010.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Dark Matters," 24 January 2012-6 January 2013, unpublished checklist.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
- Published References
- UNSIGNED. "Directions-Ron Mueck," Smithsonian Today (Spring 2002), p. 2.
- HUNTINGTON, RICHARD. “Exhibits to Ponder,” Buffalo News (18 April 2004), ill. p. F1.
- GARCIA, CAMILLE. “Albright-Knox Opens Renowned Sculpture Exhibition,” Buffalo Rocket (21 April 2004), ill. p. 1; p. 5.
- JACKSON-FORSBERG, ERIC. “Just Think: Rodin and His Contemporary Counterparts at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,” ArtVoice 3, no. 21 (20-26 May 2004), ill. p. 12.
- UNSIGNED. What's Happening: November-December 2006 (Brooklyn Museum, 2006), cover. [events calendar]
- UNSIGNED. Discover Magazine (February 2007), cover.
- ROBINSON, GAILE. "Not Actual Size," Fort Worth Star-Telegram (24 June 2007), p. D1.
- MITCHELL, CHARLES DEE. "Humanity Writ Large," Dallas Morning News (25 June 2007), ill. p. E4.
- PRICE, MICHAEL H. "Mueck's Colossal Sculptures Dominate Modern Exhibit," Fort Worth Business Press (2 July 2007), p. 26.
- BLAMBERGER, GUNTER. Thinking in Literature: On the Fascination and Power of Aesthetic Ideas (Paderborn, Germany: Brill | Wilhelm Fink, 2021), fig. 6 (color), p. 75.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 311, p. 333.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and in Honor of Robert Lehrman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1997--2004, for his extraordinary leadership and unstinting service to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- (2000)
- Accession Number
- 01.4
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Pigmented polyester resin on fiberglass
- Dimensions
- 80 1/4 × 47 1/2 × 80 1/2 in. (203.8 × 120.7 × 204.5 cm)
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- International Contemporary
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_01.4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py26662bfe4-151b-474e-9940-f43225f1339a
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