The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Beyond--Q17
1977
(American, born Russian Empire [now Ukraine], 1900–1988)
Sheet: 76.7 x 56 cm (30 3/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
© Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: Not on view
Description
Nevelson's wooden sculptures are built out of urban fragments such as bits of molding or balustrades, splintered sections of wainscoting, lengths of banisters, and chunks of beams. Often architectural in scale, these pieces have a mysterious, haunting presence. Painted black, like Sky Cathedral-Moon Garden Wall, these constructions are filled with complex patterns of shadows, textures, and shapes. In Beyond--Q17 Nevelson also transformed the debris of city life into a three-dimensional work of art in which torn black paper was collaged onto an inventive, suggestive linear design.- Webb, Sheila, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Paper, the Continuous Thread. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 34-36, no. 26; Mentioned: p. 67
- Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).Paper: The Continuous Thread. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 31-October 24, 1982).Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4, 1979-January 27, 1980).Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).
- {{cite web|title=Beyond--Q17|url=false|author=Louise Nevelson|year=1977|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.96