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Black Zag CC
Black Zag CC

Black Zag CC

Artist Louise Nevelson American, born Ukraine, 1899–1988
Date1964–1971, final addition 1977
MediumPainted wood construction with fabricated, found, and bought elements; wire and metal hardware; and Formica frame
Dimensions48 x 59 x 9 in. (121.9 x 149.9 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.78.2.2
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceArtist to Pace Gallery, New York; sold to NCMA, 1978 (inv. no. 3286).Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 282.

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (Jan/Feb 2001), illus. (b-w) 22 (lecture announcement).

Chad Alan Weinard, entry for Black Zag CC, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 514, illus. (color) 515.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," December 14, 1978-January 28, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "The Light Aesthetic," September 1984–July 1985.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 30, 2023.
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