Object number2001.10

Dighton Rock, Taunton, Massachusetts

Date1971

Artist Nancy Graves (American, 1939 - 1995)

CultureAmerican

MediumGouache on paper

DimensionsUnframed: 22 1/2 x 30 in. (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Fund, in honor of Linda Nochlin, class of 1951

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (LL): Graves 1971

BibliographyJunkin, Sara. “Nancy Graves” Primitive Presence in the “70’s Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 1975: illus. 10 Livingston, Jane. “The Liberation: 14 Amerikanska kvinnliga konstnarer,” Malmo Konsthall, Sweden, 1976: p. 5, cat. no. 18 Lippard, Lucy R. “Strata: Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor,” Vancouver Art Gallery, 1977: 28 Radcliff, Carter. “On Contemporary Primitivism” Artforum November 1975: 14, no. 3, illus. 59. ProvenanceEstate of the artist (1996); The artist (1995)

Vassar Exhibitions

Winners of the W.K. Rose Fellowship at Vassar College: A Selection of Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryInstitute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: “Nancy Graves: Sculputre and Drawing 1970-1972,” September 22-November 1, 1972;

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, November 30-January 9 1973;
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA: “Recent Works by Nancy Graves,” May 5-31, 1973;

Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY: “Primitive Presence in the’70’s,” May 5-31, 1975;

Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark: “The Liberation: 14 American Artists,” April 1976;

Asbaek Gallery, May 12-June 6, 1976; Kunstahlle Malmo, July 2-August 15, 1976;

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland, mid-September-mid-October; Instituta de Cultura Hispanica, Madrid, November; Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, January 1977;

Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Oporto, February; Vienna Kunstlerhaus, March 1977;

America House, Berlin, April; American Cultural Center, Bucharest, mid-June-late-July 1977;

National Museum of Fine Arts, Valeetta, Malta, September 1977; Rome?, October1977;
Ankara?, November, 1977;

Vancouver Art Gallery: “Strara; Nancy Graves, Michelle Stuart, Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor,” October 9-November 6, 1977.

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