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Alien Huddle

1993–95

Martin Puryear

(American, b. 1941)
Culture
America
Medium
red cedar and pine
Measurements
Overall: 134.6 x 162.5 x 134.6 cm (53 x 64 x 53 in.)
Weight: 235 lbs
Credit Line
Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro 2002.65
Copyright
© Martin Puryear, courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
On view at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, Sep 27, 2025 - Feb 8, 2026
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Puryear seamlessly attached red cedar planks to the pine core without metal fixtures, a skill attributed to his training in furniture making, joinery, and woodworking.

Description

With its bulbous joined spheres made of pine and cedar, Alien Huddle reveals the close relationship between organic form and material that is emblematic of Martin Puryear's sculpture. A great breadth of aesthetic traditions informs his work, including modernist abstraction, Indigenous African crafts, boat building, and recent technology. Puryear brings these together to create a distinctive body of abstract work animated by cultural, social, and historical references.
Three blond wood spheres, made up of thin smooth panels, joined together. At the largest sphere's low edge, almost touching the ground, half of another smaller sphere is attached. Nestled between the two is a very small third sphere.

Alien Huddle

1993–95

Martin Puryear

(American, b. 1941)
America

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