id: 143617 accession number: 1967.77 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.77 updated: 2025-05-08 11:22:01.767000 Untitled, 1961. Lee Bontecou (American, 1931–2022). Welded steel, canvas, and wire; overall: 132.1 x 121.6 x 30.5 cm (52 x 47 7/8 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1967.77 © Lee Bontecou title: Untitled title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1961 creation date earliest: 1961 creation date latest: 1961 current location: 229C Contemporary creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © Lee Bontecou --- culture: America technique: Welded steel, canvas, and wire department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lee Bontecou (American, 1931–2022) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 132.1 x 121.6 x 30.5 cm (52 x 47 7/8 x 12 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective opening date: 1972-03-25T05:00:00 Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 25-May 7, 1972). title: Vitality of Vision: Works by Women in Sculpture opening date: 1987-03-20T05:00:00 Vitality of Vision: Works by Women in Sculpture. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (March 20-May 10, 1987). title: Contemporary Installation opening date: 2021-04-12T04:00:00 Contemporary Installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Sculpture and Relief. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (May 23-June 1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-05-23T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Decade .7. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL (April 16 -May 16, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-04-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Collection of the artist date: footnotes: citations: (Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1967- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. “Lee Bontecou, Untitled.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 2 (February 1969). page number: Reproduced p. 79; mentioned p. 78-80 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183. Cleveland Museum of Art. "Year in Review, 1967," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54 (December 1967). page number: Reproduced p. 331, no. 134, mentioned p. 346. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152218. “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: October - December, 1967.” Art Quarterly 31, no. 2 (Summer 1968). page number: Reproduced p. 230; mentioned p. 226 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 4 Reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n7 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 114 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced p. 327; mentioned p. 326. url: Henning, Edward B. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced p. 6. url: Henning, Edward B. “The Art Museum and the Avant-Garde.” Art Journal 30, no. 1 (Autumn 1970): 20-26. page number: Reproduced p. 22. url: Huntley, David C., ed. Decade .7: Contemporary American Art, 1967. Exh. Cat. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1967 page number: Cat. No. 5 url: Smith, Elizabeth A. T., ed. Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective. Exh. Cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2003. page number: Reproduced pgs. 39 and 225, Plate 28. url: --- IMAGES