Storage

Artist Judith Shea (American, born 1948)

Date1999

MediumBronze

DimensionsA: 66 × 18 × 12 inches (167.64 × 45.72 × 30.48 cm)
B: 62 × 19 1/2 × 26 inches (157.48 × 49.53 × 66.04 cm)
C: 58 × 16 × 20 1/2 inches (147.32 × 40.64 × 52.07 cm)
D: 42 3/4 × 14 1/2 × 15 inches (108.59 × 36.83 × 38.1 cm)
E: 88 × 15 1/4 × 17 inches (223.52 × 38.74 × 43.18 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object numberF99-33/77 A-E

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park

Collections

Contemporary Art

Terms

DescriptionA: barefoot woman
B: overcoat
C: headless woman
D: lower trunk
E: skirt on columnGallery Label

Gallery Label

Judith Shea initially worked as a fashion designer. Later, she began making figurative sculptures, a radical idea in the avant-garde world of abstract art. Storage includes a hollow coat and dress, motifs that Shea uses frequently in her work. Shea stated, "They lean propped up against the wall essentially as if forgotten or stored. The truncated clothing forms provided an essence-no extremities, no movement; it was a way to express the essence of human presence."

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 1999.

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1999.

Published References

Alice Thorson, “Park Place,” The Kansas City Star (June 6, 1999): J1, (repro.).

Alice Thorson, “Moving Sculptures: Museum in an Expansive Mood for Accommodating Architectural

Addition,” The Kansas City Star (August 8, 1999): J1, (repro.).

Margaret Schmitz Rizzo, “Midtown Report,” The Kansas City Star (October 20, 1999): 8.

Martin Friedman, “Judith Shea: Characters on the Verge of A Revelation,” Sculpture (February 22,

2005), 32, (repro.).

Martin Friedman, “Judith Shea,” A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 (Hamilton: isc

Press, 2006): 269, (repro.).
KC Magazine (2008): 78, (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), 120, (repro.), 237.

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