Achievements: Her work is seen in major collections in museums and corporations. Nevelson remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century American sculpture. | Name: Louise Nevelson Art Movement: Contemporary Born: 1899 in Ukraine. Died: 1988. Main Medium: Sculpture, Assemblage Artist Quote: "I have never liked the middle ground, [it is] the most boring place in the world." About the Artist: Nevelson came to the United States as a child with her family, settling first in Rockland, Maine. At age twenty she went to New York to study voice and drama as well as painting and drawing. About the Artwork: Nevelson created striking assemblages of found wooden forms, and sculptures in steel, aluminum, Plexiglass, and other materials. She built boxes and walls from dismantled furniture, ornaments, and scraps of wood that she found on the street, and often painted them in single colors to emphasize the effects of light and shadow. Her later works were painted in monochromatic black, white, or gold because of the personal symbolism of those colors. |
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https://americanart.si.edu/artist/louise-nevelson-3523
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-nevelson-1696
https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/louise-nevelson/
https://stormking.org/artist/louise-nevelson/
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/louise-nevelson-3523
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-nevelson-1696
https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/louise-nevelson/
https://stormking.org/artist/louise-nevelson/