Tree
Artist
Harry Bertoia
American, born Italy, 1915–1978
Datecirca early 1950s
MediumWelded metal, brazed
Dimensions14 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (35.6 x 26.7 x 15.9 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner
Object numberG.65.10.7
On View
Not on viewThe Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), noted 10, listed 79.
Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 40, illus. (b-w).
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America (New York, 1968), 658.
Art Society News 1, no. 4 (Winter issue), 1, illus.
North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 91.
Harry Bertoia, Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life (exhibition catalogue) (Dallas, TX: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2022), cat. no. 58.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 209, illus. (b-w).
Pinehurst, NC, N.C. Country Club, "N.C. Art Society's Beaux-Arts Ball," February 23, 1974.
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the NCMA," March 11-April 13, 1975.
Dallas, TX, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Foundations: Harry Bertoia," January 29–April 17, 2022. Object Rights Statement
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