About the Artwork
Coo Wha Zee
1962
John Chamberlain
1927-2011
American
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Painted steel
Overall: 72 × 60 × 50 inches (182.9 × 152.4 × 127 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Brooks Barron
65.76
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Provenance
1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Roberts, Colette. "Lettre de New York." Aujourd'hui 7, 39 (November 1962): p. 50 [incorrectly identified as "Baby Jane, 1962."]
Sculpture in the Open Air. Exh. cat., Battersea Park, London, England. New Yok, 1963, no. 11 (ill.).
Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 185 (ill.).
John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1971, p. 57, no. 45 (ill.).
Sylvester, Julie. John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture 1954-1985. New York, 1986, pp. 66-67.
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© 2005 John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
John Chamberlain, Coo Wha Zee, 1962, painted steel . Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Brooks Barron, 65.76.
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