Lampshade Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (American, 1890–1976)

1921

American Paintings and Sculpture

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Painted (white) tin, metal rod, wing bolt, square bolt, round metal flange, screwed to round wood base

Dimensions

45 3/8 × 3 1/16 in. (115.3 × 7.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier

Accession Number

1953.6.1

Geography

Made in New York City, New York, United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • Ketevan Kintsurashvili, David Kakabadzé: Georgian Modern Artist and Inventor (New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013), 134
  • Marsden Hartley and New Mexico: The Search for American Modernism, exh. cat. (Santa Fe: Yale University Press, 2008),
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 103, fig. 8
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 126–27, fig. 124
Object copyright
© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

lampshades, utilitarian objects

Signed

Signed, dated, and inscribed in ink on top of base: "LAMPSHADE / MAN RAY N Y 1921"

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