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Endless

Artist Susan Rothenberg (American, 1945 - 2020)
Date1982
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 95 × 57 inches (241.3 × 144.78 cm)
Framed: 96 11/16 × 58 9/16 × 2 1/2 inches (245.59 × 148.75 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of Norman and Elaine Polsky, Fixtures Furniture, Kansas City
Object numberF86-50/2
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionWhite/grey expressionist background. Extending from top edge, almost to bottom edge of canvas is an upside- down abstract figure in black outline. Over this figure, extending from top edge to bottom edge of canvas is an oval in blue outline.Exhibition History
Artists Choose Artists III, Clara Diament Sujo Gallery, New York, NY, May 23-June 30, 1984, unnumbered.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987
, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14-December 6, 1987, no cat.
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, November 14, 1992-January 3, 1992, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., February 10-May 9, 1993, The Saint Louis Art Museum, May 27-July 25, 1993, Museum of Contemporary Art, August 20-October 24, 1993, Seattle Art Museum, November 17, 1993-January 9, 1994, hors. cat.
Reason and Ritual, Parker-Grant Gallery, August 1997-February 1998, no cat.
Provenance
With Willard Gallery, New York;
Purchased from Willard Gallery into a private collection;
Fixtures Furniture, Kansas City, MO;
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.
Published References

Kynaston McShine, Harriet Schoenholz Bee, Jane Fluegel,  An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), 269, (repro.).

Donald Kuspit, Artists Choose Artists III, exh. cat. (New York: CDS Gallery, 1984), 6, (repro.), 7.

Copyright© Estate of Susan Rothenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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