Model for Tomb for Walt Whitman
Artist
Siah Armajani
(American, born Iran, 1939 - 2020)
Date2010
MediumWood, plastic, cardboard, canvas, eye bolts, string, and paint
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 × 14 × 8 inches (19.69 × 35.56 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Barbara Bauer Armajani
Object number2024.66.1,2
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DescriptionThis is a miniature model of a yellow bridge suspended over a canvas tent. Two gray stands hold up the bridge on either side, and each has a window in which the bridge sits. On each of the long sides of the bridge is a wheel suspended with ropes and attached to the gray stands. A tent sits directly beneath the wheels, between the two stands, and centered beneath the bridge. It stands on wooden stilts and is covered with canvas. Both ends of the tent are open. Everything sits on a rectangular plywood base that is covered in writing.Exhibition HistorySiah Armajani: The Tomb Series, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, September 4–October 18, 2014.
Acquired from the artist by his wife, Barbara Bauer Armajani (1941–2024), Minneapolis, MN, 2020-2024;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
Siah Armajani: The Tomb Series (New York: Alexander Gray Associates, 2014), 9.
Copyright© Estate of Siah Armajani / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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