Standing Figures (Thirty Figures)
Artist
Magdalena Abakanowicz
(Polish, 1930 - 2017)
Date1994-1998
MediumBronze
DimensionsEach (figures): 74 × 23 × 16 inches (187.96 × 58.42 × 40.64 cm)
Part (decking): 54 1/4 × 19 11/16 feet (651 1/2 × 236 1/2 inches)
Part (decking): 54 1/4 × 19 11/16 feet (651 1/2 × 236 1/2 inches)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object numberF99-33/1 A-DD
On View
On viewGallery Location
- Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park
Collections
Gallery LabelMagdalena Abakanowicz's figures are instantly identifiable by their stark imagery. The haunting power of these headless, standing figures invites many interpretations, and the artist welcomes this approach. Could they be awaiting final judgment? Do they suggest war victims? Are they primordial beings in silent communication? Each figure is individually cast from a burlap-lined body mold.
Purchased
from a Private Collection by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
MO, 1998.
Abakanowicz: Recent Exhibitions and
Installations
(New York: Marlborough, 1999), 34-35, (repro.).
Alice Thorson, “Learn the story of sculptures,” The Kansas City Star (August 18, 19999), (repro.).
Margaret Schmitz Rizzo, “Midtown Report,” The
Kansas City Star (September 16, 1999), 11.
“DeMaria’s Sunand Moons Completed at Nelson-Atkins,” (November 2002), 49,
clipping, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Neal Webster Turnage, “K.C. Cool,” American Way Magazine (January 10, 2012), (repro.).Deborah Deborah Emont Scott, ed.,
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 237, 236, (repro.).
Copyright© Magdalena Abakanowicz, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York
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