Ferryman
Artist
Tony Cragg
(English, born 1949)
Fabricator
Schmake Dusseldorf
(German)
Date1997
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 54 1/8 × 64 15/16 × 98 7/16 inches, 1320 lb. (137.48 × 164.94 × 250.03 cm, 598.75 kg)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2001.26.1
SignedStamps: "TC A.E. SCHMAKE DUSSELDORF"
Edition/State/ProofAP
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA long horizontal bronze sculpture whose swelling, biomorphic surfaces are perforated by a multitude of circular holes.Exhibition HistoryPublic Art Fund, Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, May
22, 2000-February 2002, no cat.
Tony Cragg is one of Great Britain's most esteemed artists. His sculpture, Ferryman, may refer to the operator of a ferry boat, to the fluid "body" of water or to the the molecular structure of matter itself. Its amorphous form extrudes and wraps in upon itself in an endless flow of energy to create a playful dialogue between interior and exterior spaces.
With
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, by 2001;
Purchased from the Marian Goodman Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001.
Purchased from the Marian Goodman Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City:
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 126, 239, (repro.).
Copyright© Tony Cragg
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