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A201 Ribat
A201 Ribat

A201 Ribat

Artist Jackie Ferrara American, born 1929
Date1979
MediumPine
Dimensions86 x 52 x 20 in. (218.4 x 132.1 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.19
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated New York, 1979; collection of the artist; [Max Protetch Gallery, New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, May 1981; given to NCMA, 2014.

Published References“Jackie Ferrara,” Art News (February 1980), 197.

Phil Patton, “Sculpture The Mind Can Use,” Art News (March 1982), illus. (b-w) 111, as Ribat.

B. C. M. [Barbara C. Matilsky], entry for A201 Ribat in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 5, illus. (color) 39.
Exhibition History[New York, NY, Max Protetch Gallery, “Jackie Ferrara: New Works,” November 13–December 15, 1979.]

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 5, illus (color), 39.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.

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