Wall of Light Peru

Artist Sean Scully American, born Ireland 1945

Date2000

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions110 x 132 in. (279.4 x 335.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.49

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 2000; collection of the artist; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, December 2001; given to NCMA, 2014.

Published ReferencesSean Scully: Wall of Light (exhibition catalogue) (Monterrey; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, 2001), illus. 113.

Sean Scully: Light and Gravity (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Knoedler & Co., 2001), illus. (color) 23.

Lilly Wei, “Sean Scully at Knoedler and Galerie Lelong,” Art in America (February 2002), 125.

Wall of Light (New York: Rizzoli International Publication and the Phillips Collection, 2005), 138, illus. (color).

Craig Jarvis, “Museum of Art snags trove of modern works,” News & Observer (Raleigh), May 22, 2008, illus. (color) 1A.

Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Wall of Light Peru, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 546, illus. (color) 547.

“The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2015 Calendar), illus. (color), unpaginated.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Knoedler & Co., “Sean Scully: Light and Gravity,” March 8–April 28, 2001, illus. (color) 23.

Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, “Sean Scully: Wall of Light,” September 19, 2001–January 15, 2002, illus. 113.

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

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