untitled, Robert Barry

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Robert Barry, untitled
Robert Barry, untitled
Robert Barry
untitled
1975
Robert Barry
born 1936
untitled, 1975
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: paper; graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 34.5 x 34.5 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13 9/16 x 13 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 19 in
Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Accession number: 2009.0039
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns In 2004 editor, writer, and curator Jörg Heiser wrote of an early work by Robert Barry titled, It Has Order (1969-70), “he distributed eight short sentences over four otherwise empty pages: ‘ ... it has order ... it is always changing ... it is affected by other things ... it affects other things ... it is not confined ... it is not in any specific place ... it can be presented, but go unnoticed ... to know of it is to be part of it ... ’ Who or what is the ‘it’ he is talking about? The weather? The Holy Ghost? Sure, he is talking about art, but he could just as easily be talking about inert gases, too.” Similarly, the series of words on the perimeter of the two drawings by Barry exhibited here evoke thoughts, memories, and constructions that rapidly move beyond the physical space of the work itself to our individual mental spaces.

Exhibitions

NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Susan Earle, curator
Stephen Goddard, curator
2011

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