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Nov 6, 2008

Untitled

Untitled

c. 1958–59

John Chamberlain

(American, 1927–2011)

America, 20th century

Painted and welded metal

Overall: 82.4 x 67.3 x 61 cm (32 7/16 x 26 1/2 x 24 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1973.27

© Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Location

227 Abstract Expressionism

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Chamberlain once quipped, “I think of my art materials not as junk, but as garbage.”

Description

Throughout his career, Chamberlain was fascinated by the radical notion that consumer waste could be reconstituted into art. Most often he made sculpture by variously bending, twisting, crushing, and welding pieces of discarded car parts. Through both their junkyard material and atypical methods of construction, these works upended traditional sculpture created from carved marble or cast bronze.

See also
Collection: 
American - Sculpture
Department: 
American Painting and Sculpture
Type of artwork: 
Sculpture
Medium: 
Painted and welded metal
Credit line: 
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

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