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Martin Puryear

[African-American Sculptor, born in 1941]

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Original works by Martin Puryear available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
20 works by Martin Puryear online

Martin Puryear at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
That Profile, 1999

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
4 works by Martin Puryear online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Martin Puryear"

Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Martin Puryear

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Untitled, 1997

Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Blue Blood

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Three Holes, 2002

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Vault, 1984

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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Untitled

 
Other Web Sites:
PBS
Superb reproductions of a couple of works plus a photograph of the artist.

PBS
art:21 - Art in the 21st Century

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Martin Puryear
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

CNN
America's Best Artist, according to CNN in 2001

Time Magazine
"Delight in a Shaping Hand", 1992 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Martin Puryear", 2001 article by Robert Hughes

 
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Puryear's Dumb Luck, 1990
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)

  
 
  
 
 
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