  About the Artwork
  
  
  Carl Andre uses ordinary materials, such as pieces of uncarved wood, to create his sculptures, arranging them in simple, geometric patterns that are held together by gravity and balance. He positioned the solid pieces of wood in a rectangular shape and did not use any color to preserve the purity of the wood's natural state.
  
  
  Title
  Tomb of the Golden Engenderers
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1976
  
  Artist
  Carl Andre
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1935 - 2024
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Western red cedar wood
  
  
  Dimensions
  Installed: 36 × 108 × 36 inches (91.4 × 274.3 × 91.4 cm)
  Overall (each unit): 12 × 12 × 36 inches (30.5 × 30.5 × 91.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund and National Endowment for the Arts Matching Museum Purchase Grant
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  78.68
  
  
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