id:			163641
accession number:	2005.140
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.140
updated:		2023-01-11 15:47:23.311000

In Blue, 1996. Jim Hodges (American, b. 1957). Silk flowers and thread; overall: 396 x 259 cm (155 7/8 x 101 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Katharine Lee Reid 2005.140 © Jim Hodges

title:				In Blue
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creation date:			1996
creation date earliest:		1996
creation date latest:		1996
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creditline:			Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Katharine Lee Reid
copyright:			© Jim Hodges

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	silk flowers and thread
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Installation Media
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

* Jim Hodges (American, b. 1957)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 396 x 259 cm (155 7/8 x 101 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges
	opening date:   2009-10-01T00:00:00
	<i>Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges</i>. FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (organizer) (October 1, 2009-January 31, 2010).

	title:		Imagining the Garden
	opening date:   2015-10-24T00:00:00
	<i>Imagining the Garden</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Landscape Confection.</em> Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (Jan. 30 - April 27, 2005).

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PROVENANCE

	Agnes Gund, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2005
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2005–
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In his work, Jim Hodges reveals qualities of beauty and grace in the most unassuming materials. Through relatively simple acts of manipulation and reappraisal, he invests the man-made with a previously absent level of emotion and authenticity. In Blue is a diaphanous curtain of lush, tropical colors that is both imposing for its monumental scale and delicate in its fragility. Activated by the slightest breeze, its artificial elements ripple with the movement of natural life forms. To create In Blue, Hodges took apart hundreds of silk flowers, flattened and ironed each element, pinned the pieces together, and then carefully hand-sewed them into a scrim.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 123
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