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Untitled

c. 1958–59

John Chamberlain

(American, 1927–2011)
Culture
America
Medium
painted and welded metal
Measurements
Overall: 82.4 x 67.3 x 61 cm (32 7/16 x 26 1/2 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1973.27
Copyright
© Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
227 Abstract Expressionism
Print
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Did You Know?

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.
Sculpture of welded scraps of metal with chipped cream, red, blue, and yellow paint twisted into a jagged cylinder. At the top right, a cream colored V-shaped scrap of metal juts out like angular bunny ears.

Untitled

c. 1958–59

John Chamberlain

(American, 1927–2011)
America

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