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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.77
People
Jacqueline Winsor, American (St. John's, Newfoundland 1941 - 2024)
Title
Inset Wall Piece Gray with Maroon Interior
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1988-1989
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98615

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Acrylic-altered cement and powdered pigment
Dimensions
27.94 x 27.94 x 12.7 cm (11 x 11 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leroy and Dorothy Lavine, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Leroy and Dorothy Lavine in honor of James Cuno
Copyright
© 1989 Jackie Winsor
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.77
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Winsor's sculpture is in fact a wall piece, a three-dimensional cube fashioned from what she calls "acrylic altered cement," which has been constructed as a very thin (approx. 1/8 inch), pigmented, five-sided, hard-edged, precisely cut cube set into a thicker slabbed, five-sided gray cement cube with a neatly trimmed flange that acts as a brake and reads as a frame for the inner open cube once it is set into the wall. (The cement flange rests against the wall.)Th inner, recessed cube's surface has been rubbed with purplish-black powdered pigment that has then been rubbed away. According to Roy and Dorothy Lavine, owners and now donors of this Inset Wall Piece, Winsor herself, and not an assitant, created the entire piece. If this is true, it may be a prototype for another Inset Wall Piece, also dated 1988-89, but Gray with Red Interior, once in the collection of the McKee Gallery. (See Milwaukee Art Museum, Jackie Winsor, Dean Sobel, 1991-92. Plate #27. Inset Wall Piece Gray with Red Interior, 1988-89, Acrylic altered cement and powdered acrylic pigment. 11 x 11 x 4 1/2 inches (28 x 28 x 11.4 cm)).

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