Large Stack
Each: 9 × 40 × 31 inches (22.86 × 101.6 × 78.74 cm)
- L4
Surface, Structure, Light. Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, December 13, 1995-February 4, 1996, no cat.
Reason and Ritual, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, December 1997 – February 1998, no cat.
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 14-August 2, 2004, unnumbered.
Large Stack is made up of units whose rational, geometric simplicity and systematic spatial relationships make them indistinguishable from each other. Judd uses industrial materials, in this case prefabricated stainless steel and Plexiglas sheets, as a conscious rejection of craftsmanship. There are 32 versions of Judd's stacks, representing his deliberate attempt to demystify the work of art as a unique, precious object.
With Leo Castelli Gallery;
With Dwan Gallery, New York;
With Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, by 1976;
Purchased from Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, by the Friends of Art, Kansas City, MO, by 1976.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1976.
Donald Hoffman, “Howlers by the ‘Friends’” The Kansas City Star, November 28, 1976.
Erika Doss, Twentieth-Century
American Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 166.
Ann Diederichsen Goldstein, A
Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 (Los Angeles: Museum of
Contemporary Art, 2004), 261, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 222, (repro.).
