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Untitled

1961

Lee Bontecou

(American, 1931–2022)
Culture
America
Medium
Welded steel, canvas, and wire
Measurements
Overall: 132.1 x 121.6 x 30.5 cm (52 x 47 7/8 x 12 in.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1967.77
Copyright
© Lee Bontecou
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Location
Not on view
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In the early 1960s, Lee Bontecou often used found objects to create her hanging sculptures, including canvas from conveyor belts discarded by a laundry below her East Village apartment and salvaged metal and wire.

Description

In the early 1960s, Bontecou challenged artistic conventions through her creation of three-dimensional wall constructions that were neither sculpture nor painting, but a hybrid of the two. To construct this work, Bontecou used found objects such as welded steel, wire, and various types of canvas. An abstract form, riddled with dark openings that allude to bodily orifices, lunar craters, and gas masks, the work explores the relationship between the living and the machine.
An abstract steel sculpture features a welded patchwork of gray metals, yellowed strips of canvas, and holes covered by bars that bend out from the surface. Slightly off-center is an oval with a hole in the middle, surrounded by rings of metal, wire, and canvas overlaid with bars.

Untitled

1961

Lee Bontecou

(American, 1931–2022)
America

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