Silver Housatonic (Benefit Edition) Artist: Maya Lin (American, born 1959, B.A. 1981, M.Arch. 1986)

2011

Modern and Contemporary Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Recycled silver

Dimensions

approx.: 1 × 28 × 8 in. (2.5 × 71.1 × 20.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Yale University President Richard C. Levin, Ph.D. 1974

Accession Number

2013.144.1

Culture

American

Period

21st century

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Gift from the artist to President Levin
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 156–57, 190, 193, no. 31, cover ill., fig. 2
Object copyright
Copyright Maya Lin Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery
In Copyright
Additional information

Subject

Women artists

Edition

Edition of 30

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