Drawing for Tomb for Frank O’Hara
Artist
Siah Armajani
(American, born Iran, 1939 - 2020)
Date2016
MediumInk on Mylar
DimensionsOverall: 36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund
Object number2024.67.3
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThis drawing shows two tables, one in front of the other, with the disassembled backs of chairs on top of them, as well as a black, rectangular box with a slatted top The tables, chairs, and black box all have a stippled texture. Four other boxes, two towards the top left corner and two beneath the tables in the bottom center are filled with writing in faint purple and brown ink. The writing is largely illegible having been redacted with silver ink.Exhibition History Siah Armajani, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, October 27–December 17, 2016; Siah Armajani – Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy , NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, July 20–November 3, 2019; Out of Sight , Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, September 23–November 4, 2023.
Acquired from the artist by his wife, Barbara Bauer Armajani (1941–2024), Minneapolis, MN, 2020-2024;
Purchased from her by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO, 2024.
Siah Armajani (New York: Alexander Gray Associates, 2016), 4, 38–9
Copyright© Estate of Siah Armajani / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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