1996.112: Plane

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.112

People

Vija Celmins, American (Riga, Latvia born 1939)

Title

Plane

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1968

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307896

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on acrylic ground on white wove paper

Dimensions

34.9 × 47.2 cm (13 3/4 × 18 9/16 in.)
frame: 41.6 × 53.7 × 4.1 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower right, graphite: V. Celmins 1968

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Vija Celmins; to Clayton Garrison, Laguna Beach, California. Robert Egelston, Los Angeles, California. Jean Milant, Los Angeles, California. [Kasumi Sonoyama, New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund and Joseph A Baird, Jr. Purchase Fund

Copyright

© Vija Celmins, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.112

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition, exh. cat., Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1979), repr., p. 47
• Judith Tannenbaum, Vija Celmins, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA, 1992), repr. p. 67; listed in checklist
• Vija Celmins, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain, 1996), checklist, p. 105
• Samantha Rippner, The Prints of Vija Celmins, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York and London, 2002), p. 55
• Vija Celmins: Dessins/Drawings, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2006), cat. no. 5, repr. p. 49
• Gary Garrels, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art and Yale University Press (San Francisco, New Haven and London, 2018), pp. 51, 263, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, 12/15/1979 - 02/03/1980; Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 05/12/1980 - 06/20/1980; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 07/20/1980 - 08/31/1980; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/21/1980 - 10/31/1980
• Vija Celmins, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 11/06/1992 - 01/17/1993; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 03/03/1993 - 05/23/1993; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 06/08/1993 - 09/08/1993; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 09/17/1993 - 11/29/1993; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 12/19/1993 - 02/06/1994
• Vija Celmins - A Retrospective; Works 1964-1996, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 01/21/1997 - 03/23/1997; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 04/12/1997 - 06/15/1997
• Photography into Painting, Work on Paper, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 12/05/1996 - 12/28/1996
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
• The Prints of Vija Celmins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/15/2002 - 12/29/2002
• Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
• Vija Celmins: A Drawings Retrospective/Vija Celmins: L'oeuvre dessiné, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Cedex 04, 10/25/2006 - 01/08/2007; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 01/28/2007 - 04/22/2007
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 10/05/2015
• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image of Memory, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 12/15/2018 - 03/31/2019

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