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Nancy Graves
Trace1981

Not on view
Large outdoor metal sculpture with a curved green trunk supporting an expansive canopy of pale blue hexagonal mesh panels, navy blue steel shapes, and coral-red rod elements, mounted on a concrete pedestal

Nancy Graves, Trace, 1981, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph and Jaye Haddad, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Nancy Graves
United States, Massachusetts, Pittsfield, 1939-1995
Title
Trace
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1981
Medium
Corten steel and aluminum, painted with urethane
Dimensions
192 × 214 × 120 in. (487.68 × 543.56 × 304.8 cm) Base: 120 × 101 × 94 in., 1 Ton 3500 lb. (304.8 × 256.54 × 238.76 cm, 1587.6 kg) Top "Cloud": 120 × 101 × 94 in., 1500 lb. (304.8 × 256.54 × 238.76 cm, 680.4 kg)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph and Jaye Haddad
Accession Number
M.85.315a-c
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
Copyright
© Nancy Graves Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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