SPIDER LADY NEST

1960

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view

Medium

Mixed media

Dimensions

78.74 × 72.39 × 17.78 cm (31 × 28 1/2 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Collection

Accession Number

2008.19.182

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Alan Gallery, NY, 3/24/61
Bibliography

  • Rudolf Frieling and Gary Garrels, Bruce Conner: It's All True, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016), 46, fig. 18.
  • Sequoia Miller and John Stuart Gordon, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015–16), 36, fig. 24.
  • Jennifer Farrell et al., Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 198–99, 201, fig. 2.
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008): 223–24, ill.
  • Pamela Franks et al., Responding to Kahn: A Sculptural Conversation, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 2–3, 26, no. 7, ill.
  • Bruce Conner, 2,000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999), 91, 249, 269, no. 14.
  • Fortissimo!: Thirty years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of contemporary art, exh. cat. (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 66, 133, no. 32, ill.

Object copyright
Conner Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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