Variability of Similar Forms

1970

Nancy Graves American, 1940-1995

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Title Variability of Similar Forms

Artwork Date 1970

Artist Nancy Graves

Life Dates 1940-1995

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Steel, wax, marble dust and acrylic on wood base

Dimensions Overall: 86 inches × 144 inches × 16 feet (218.4 cm × 3 m 65.8 cm × 4 m 87.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation and Friends of Modern Art

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2000.43

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1988, tranfer to DIA as long term loan 12/1/1988

2000, purchased by DIA on 4/19/2000.

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Published References

"At the Galleries." The Village Voice, January 14, 1971, 20 (ill.).

Keefe, Nancy Q. "Nancy Graves." The Berkshire Eagle January 29, 1971, 5 (ill.).

Perreault, John. "Art: Camels." The Village Voice, February 4, 1971, 13-14.

Henry, Gerrit. "New York Letter." Art International 15 (March 1971): 51 (ill.).

Tuchman, Phyllis. Introduction to Nancy Graves: Sculpture, Drawing, Films, 1969-1971. Aachen, 1971 (ill.).

Tuchman, Phyllis, Wolfgang Becker, and Michael Strohmeyer. Nancy Graves. Stadt Aachen: Neue Galerie Im Alten Kurhaus, vol. 11. Aachen, 1971 (ill.).

Stadnik, Tom. "Graves Exhibit 'Lusty and Exotic.'" Pennsylvania Voice, September 20, 1972, (ill.).

Donohoe, Victoria. "Nancy Graves and 'Dem Bones.'" The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 24, 1972, H8 (ill.).

McCaslin, Walt. "Graves Moves Freely in Her Trade." The Journal Herald, December 13, 1972, 41 (ill.).

Arn, Robert. "The Moving Eye ... Nancy Graves Sculpture, Film, and Painting." Artscanada 31 (Spring 1974): 45.

Lippard, Lucy. "Distancing: THe Films of Nancy Graves." Art in America 63 (November/December 1975): 78 (ill.).

Heinemann, Susan. "Nancy Graves: The Painting Seen." Arts Magazine 51 (March 1977): 139 (ill.).

Carr, Carolyn Kinder. "Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980: Observations and ... Discussion of Sculpture." Dialogue (July/August 1980): 21 (ill.).

Tennant, Donna. "Doing What Comes Naturally." Houston Chronicle, September 21, 1980, 16 (ill.).

Daval, Jean-Luc, ed. "Emotional Moods." Art Actual: Skira Annual, no. 6. (1980): 126 (ill.).

Raynor, Vivien. "From Camel Bones to Diverse Sensibilities." The New York Times, February 1, 1981, 16 (ill.).

Beals, Kathie. "Art of the Future." Weekend, February 13, 1981, 13 (ill.).

Kelly, James J. The Sculptural Idea. 3rd ed. Minneapolis, 1981, p. 67, fig. 60 (ill.).

Morrison, Don. "Artist's Stunningly Life-like Camel Highlight Exhibition." The Minneapolis Star, May 29, 1981, 3B (ill.).

Morris, Margaret. "Walker Opens Exhibition for Laters Find." Minneapolis Tribune, June 3, 1981, 2B (ill.).

Smith, Roberta. Four Artists And The Map Image/Process/Data/Place: Jasper Johns, Nancy Graves, Roger Welch, Richard Long. Lawrence, KS, 1981, p. 11 (ill.).

Amaya, Mario. "Artist's Dialogue: A Conversation with Nancy Graves." Architectural Digest 39 (February 1982): 146 (ill.).

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists from Early Indian Times to the Present. Boston, 1982, figs. 9-19, p. 417 (ill.).

Berman, Avis. "Nancy Graves' New Age of Bronze." Artnews 85 (Februay 1986): 60, 62.

The Sculpture Of Nancy Graves: A Catalogue Raisonne. New York, 1987, p. 28 (ill.), cat. no. 23.

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Nancy Graves, Variability of Similar Forms, 1970, steel, wax, marble dust and acrylic on wood base. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation and Friends of Modern Art, 2000.43.