Model for Tomb for Frank O’Hara

Artist Siah Armajani (American, born Iran, 1939 - 2020)

Date2016

MediumPainted wood and concrete

DimensionsOverall: 24 × 24 × 24 inches (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number2024.67.2.1-4

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Contemporary Art

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DescriptionThis is a model of two tables, one in front of the other, with the disassembled backs of chairs on top of them and what appears to be a black rectangular box that looks like a coffin with a slated lid. The tables sit within a square of a black base. Beneath the base is another black square base turned forty-five degrees. The polished concrete base beneath is turned another forty-five degrees, matching the angle of the first black square. The model and its bases rest on a concrete pedestal.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Siah Armajani, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, October 27–December 17, 2016.

Provenance

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.

Published References

Siah Armajani (New York: Alexander Gray Associates, 2016), 4, 38–9.

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