 Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Sculpture |
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Postminimalism |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 101 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| Germany | 2 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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McKee Gallery, USA |
11 |
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Donald Young Gallery, USA |
5 |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, USA |
4 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1941 Born in Washington, D.C. (US)
1964 - 1966 Travels to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the Peace Corps
1966 - 1968 Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm
1969 - 1971 Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT,
M.F.A in Sculpture
1973 - 1977 Has a studio in Brooklyn, NY
1992 - 1993 Works at the Calder Atelier, Saché, France, at the invitation of the French Government
Awards 1962 Baltimore Museum of Art Purchase Prize Baltimore, MD
Awarded studio in P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, Institute for Art and Urban Resources
1988 The Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award
1993 College Art Association Award
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 110
until 13.10.
until 15.9.
until 11.8.
until 2.6.
Solo shows 23
2012
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| Martin Puryear: New Sculpture - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Martin Puryear Prints - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH |
2008
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| Martin Puryear - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Martin Puryear Prints - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Martin Puryear - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Martin Puryear - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
2007
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| Martin Puryear - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Martin Puryear - New sculpture and prints - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2004
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| Martin Puryear - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
2003
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| Martin Puryear - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) |
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| Martin Puryear Recent prints - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2002
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| Martin Puryear - New Sculpture - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| The Cane Project by Martin Puryear - Temple Gallery - Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Martin Puryear - Sculpture Of The 1990s - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1992
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| Martin Puryear - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Martin Puryear - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
1991
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| Martin Puryear - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1988
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| Martin Puryear - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Martin Puryear / MATRIX 86 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1984
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| Currents: Martin Puryear - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Martin Puryear - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1983
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| Martin Puryear - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1977
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| Martin Puryear - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Group shows 83
2013
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| Abluminal - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
2012
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| Group Exhibition - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Against the Grain - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Inside|Out - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
2011
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| Multiplicity - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| Gallery Selections - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Viewing Rm. - Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
2010
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| Painting and Sculpture - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| SCULPTURE - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Artpark: 1974-1984 - UB Art Galleries - University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY |
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| Form in Translation: Sculptors Making Prints and Drawings - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Living with art: collecting contemporary in metro New York - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| The Contemporary Figure - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2009
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| Cold Press - Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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| New Prints 2009/ Autumn - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| I Have a Dream: International Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Rosa Parks Museum , Montgomery, AL |
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| Summer Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Endless Renaissance - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| Die Gegenwart der Linie - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Unbounded: New Art for a New Century - The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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| African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection - 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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| The Scuptor's Hand - Tasende Gallery - La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
2008
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| Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Black - G Fine Art, Washington, DC |
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| Weighing and Wanting - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Origins - HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY |
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| Collection in Context - Four Decades - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Medieval to Modern - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| The American Evolution - A History through Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2007
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| Early Signs: Celmins, Puryear, Youngblood - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Major Prints - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Summer Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Commemorating 30 Years Part I: 1976-1980 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| Expressing Identity - American Prints Since 1980 - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Art On The Edge - Contemporary Art From The Permanent - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
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| Newark Between Us - Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ |
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| Art on the Edge - , Omaha, NE |
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| Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Limited Edition Intaglio Prints by Paulson Press and Poligrafa - Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY |
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| Drawn, Exposed & Impressed - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
2005
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| Highlights - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Black Is a Color: African American Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| An Intuitive View - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| African American Art - Masterworks of Contemporary Art - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Summer Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| ART:21 - Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA |
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| Objects of Our Desire - Sculpture from the Sheldon - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Love / Hate. From Magritte to Cattelan. - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD) |
2003
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| Drawings - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Visions and Revisions - Art on Paper since 1960 - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| McKee Gallery Print Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Black is a Color - African-American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2002
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| Gallery Artists - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Defying Distinctio - Works from the Addison Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2001
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| SPACE - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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| Algo con qué tropezar. Reflexiones sobre la escultura contemporánea - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
2000
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| New - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Giacometti to Judd: Prints by Sculptors - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Essence of the Orb - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Wood Work - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
1992
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| documenta 9 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Allegories of Modernism - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1989
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| 20° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
1988
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| Edelson, Puryear, Scanga, Stackhouse - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1987
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| Structure to resemblance : work by 8 American sculptors - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
1985
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| Inaugural Exhibit - Temple Gallery - Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1984
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| Eccentric Images - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Sculpture - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Works in Wood - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Painting and Sculpture 74th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Invitational - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
| Dealer Directory 6 |
USA
| | The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 19
Sweden
| | The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
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USA
| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
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| | Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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