id:			147516
accession number:	1973.27
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.27
updated:		2023-01-11 03:44:22.279000

Untitled, c. 1958–59. John Chamberlain (American, 1927–2011). Painted and welded metal; overall: 82.4 x 67.3 x 61 cm (32 7/16 x 26 1/2 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1973.27 ©  Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Untitled
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creation date:			c. 1958–59
creation date earliest:		1953
creation date latest:		1965
current location:		227 Abstract Expressionism
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright:			©  Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	painted and welded metal
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* John Chamberlain (American, 1927–2011)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 82.4 x 67.3 x 61 cm (32 7/16 x 26 1/2 x 24 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1973
	opening date:   1974-01-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

	title:		CMA@MOCA (rotation 2)
	opening date:   2007-01-25T00:00:00
	<i>CMA@MOCA (rotation 2)</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 13, 2007).

	title:		Albert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle
	opening date:   2016-12-04T05:00:00
	<i>Albert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2016-March 12, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1974: "Year in Review 1973," CMA Bulletin LXI (February, 1974), no. 141, p. 77, reproduced p. 57<br>Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (1/25/2007 - 5/13/2007):  "CMA@MOCA" <br>The Cleveland Museum of Art, “Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle” (12/4/2016-3/12/2017)

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PROVENANCE

	(Allan Stone Galleries, Inc.)
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fun fact:
Chamberlain once quipped, “I think of my art materials not as junk, but as garbage.”

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wall description:
Throughout his career, Chamberlain was fascinated by the radical notion that consumer waste could be reconstituted into art. Most often he made sculpture by variously bending, twisting, crushing, and welding pieces of discarded car parts. Through both their junkyard material and atypical methods of construction, these works upended traditional sculpture created from carved marble or cast bronze.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 251
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n271

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