Composites: Tall Grove of Nudes
Mount: 31 7/8 x 29 3/4 inches (80.96 x 75.57 cm)
Framed: 32 7/8 x 30 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches (83.5 x 78.42 x 6.67 cm)
Ray Metzker: Light Lines. Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2007 – January 2008, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway, June – October 2008, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, October – November 2008, 111.
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 25, 2012- February 24, 2013, no 53.
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 21, 2013- January 5, 2014, no. 53.
Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.
Ray K. Metzker’s Composites of the 1960s were unprecedented in both scale and effect. When viewed from a distance, this work reads as a pure abstraction. On closer inspection, however, it is seen to be comprised of many crisply detailed images. The Composites function somewhat like short loops of motion picture film, which create bold visual rhythms from the repetition of simple forms.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2012.
Ray Metzker. Ray Metzker: Light Lines. Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne and Steidl, 2008, 111 (repro.)
Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2012. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with the exhibitions The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design and The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker, shown at The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, respectively. 127 (repro.), 216.
