The Sedona Series, Max Ernst

Artwork Overview

Max Ernst, artist
1891–1976
The Sedona Series, 1948
Where object was made: Germany
Material/technique: bronze; casting
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 25.7 x 38.7 x 18.8 cm
Weight (Weight): 28 lbs
Credit line: Gift of Richard Roth through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation
Accession number: 1978.0143
Not on display

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Label texts

Empire of Things

German artist Max Ernst derived The Sedona Series from a group of concrete reliefs he created to adorn his house in Sedona, Arizona, where he settled in 1941 after fleeing Nazi Germany. The Arizona landscape and culture served less as an influence and more as a receptacle for his work, which combined real everyday objects with myths, motifs from indigenous art, and images from Ernst’s dreams and subconscious.

Exhibitions

Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2013–2015
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2013–2015
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2016–2021
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2016–2021