biografía de Lee BONTECOU (1931-2022)

Personal data

Birth : 01/15/1931 - Providence RI Rhode Island, United States
Death : 11/09/2022
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : United States

Address

New York NY New York, United States

Representatives

Knoedler & Company – 19 East 70th Street – New York NY, United States

Education

1952 – 1955 : The Art Students League of New York – 215 West 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Pupil of / student of William ZORACH [ 1887-1966 ]

Professional data

Work and Life

1957 – 1958:Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Rome, Italy.

Work

Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Assemblage - Relief
Drawing-Watercolor : Chalk - Pencil

Movements and styles

Abstraction

Works

Large wall relief
Date of creation : 1964
Medium : Relief
 
Drawing
Date of creation : 1961
Medium : Pencil/paper
Size : 69 x 100 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

2004

MoMAQNS Museum of Modern Art Queens – New York NY, United States
07/30/2004 – 09/27/2004

A Survey of Drawings from 1958 to 1999
Knoedler & Company – New York NY, United States
05/06/2004 – 2004

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago IL, United States
02/14/2004 – 05/30/2004

2003

A Retrospective
UCLA Hammer Museum – Los Angeles CA, United States
10/05/2003 – 01/11/2004

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Art shows / fairs

2001

13th Annual Works on Paper
New York NY, United States
03/02/2001 – 03/04/2001
Represented by : Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings – 592 Chestnut Hill Road – Glastonbury, United Kingdom

Group exhibitions

2002

Vertigo
Leo Castelli – New York NY, United States
04/26/2002 – 06/07/2002

Bibliography (Selected)

On the artist

Dictionaries

1999

Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 – 400 years of Artists in America
Publisher: Sound View Press – 859 Boston Post Rd. – Madison CT, United States
Director of publication: Falk Peter – 859 Boston Post Rd. – Madison CT, United States
1999
ISBN : 0932087558

Periodicals

2004

SORKIN Jenni – Lee Bontecou
in: Frieze n° 80 p. 96
London, United Kingdom
01/2004-02/2004

GAINES Malik – Los Angeles: Ucla Hammer Museum
in: Contemporary n° 59 p. 64
London, United Kingdom
2004

JONES Leslie – Lee Bontecou’s sublime drawings
in: Art on Paper n° 8-4 p. 50
New York NY, United States
03/2004-04/2004

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