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A Triumph of Figuration: Selections from the Joel and Carole Bernstein Family Collection
RED GROOMS (B. 1937)
Western Eagle
Details
RED GROOMS (B. 1937)
Western Eagle
incised with the artist's signature 'Red grooms' (on the eagle's tail); signed 'Red grooms' (near the base)
painted bronze on painted wooden base
42 x 17 x 31 in. (106.7 x 43.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Executed in 1980. This work is number five from an edition of six.
Western Eagle
incised with the artist's signature 'Red grooms' (on the eagle's tail); signed 'Red grooms' (near the base)
painted bronze on painted wooden base
42 x 17 x 31 in. (106.7 x 43.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Executed in 1980. This work is number five from an edition of six.
Provenance
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 September 2007, lot 277
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 September 2007, lot 277
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
G. Glueck, "Red Grooms Reshapes His Loony World," The New York Times, 29 March 1981, p. 20D.
F. Adelson, "Sculptors: A Giant and Company," The New York Times, 4 June 2000, p. 14.
P. Hassrick, Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives on Western American Art, Ann Arbor, 2007, p. 48.
M. Thomas, "Art Review: 'Ordinary Madness' raids extraordinary Carnegie collection," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 28 December 2010, p. C2.
F. Adelson, "Sculptors: A Giant and Company," The New York Times, 4 June 2000, p. 14.
P. Hassrick, Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives on Western American Art, Ann Arbor, 2007, p. 48.
M. Thomas, "Art Review: 'Ordinary Madness' raids extraordinary Carnegie collection," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 28 December 2010, p. C2.
Exhibited
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Red Grooms: Recent Works, April-May 5, 1981, p. 4, no. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Morehead State University; Columbia Museum of Art; Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art; Knoxville, University of Tennessee; Worcester Art Museum; Allentown Art Museum; Rochester, University Memorial Gallery; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Lynchburg, Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Williamsburg, Muscarelle Museum, The College of William and Mary and Huntington Galleries, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection, August 1981-August 1984 (another example exhibited).
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the VMFA, March-May 1987 (another example exhibited).
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Sculpture in the Collection of the VMFA, June-August 1991 (another example exhibited).
Hamilton, New Jersey, Grounds for Sculpture, Spring Exhibition: Red Grooms, Bill Barrett, Andrzej Pitynski, May-July 2000 (another example exhibited).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Ordinary Madness, October 2010-January 2011, no. 53 (another example exhibited).
Morehead State University; Columbia Museum of Art; Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art; Knoxville, University of Tennessee; Worcester Art Museum; Allentown Art Museum; Rochester, University Memorial Gallery; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Lynchburg, Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Williamsburg, Muscarelle Museum, The College of William and Mary and Huntington Galleries, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection, August 1981-August 1984 (another example exhibited).
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the VMFA, March-May 1987 (another example exhibited).
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Sculpture in the Collection of the VMFA, June-August 1991 (another example exhibited).
Hamilton, New Jersey, Grounds for Sculpture, Spring Exhibition: Red Grooms, Bill Barrett, Andrzej Pitynski, May-July 2000 (another example exhibited).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Ordinary Madness, October 2010-January 2011, no. 53 (another example exhibited).
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