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Sound of Stars

Artist Masayuki Nagare Japanese, 1923–2018

Date1966

MediumBlack granite

Dimensions15 x 10 x 14 in. (38.1 x 25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Estimated weight: 100 lbs.

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.38

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ProvenanceCreated Japan, 1966; collection of the artist; [Staempfli Gallery, New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, December 1977; given to NCMA, 2014.Published ReferencesB. C. M. [Barbara C. Matilsky], entry for Sound of Stars in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 14, illus. (color) 57.
Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art, “Masayuki Nagare,” November 3–December 3, 1967; Chicago, IL, The Arts Club of Chicago, January 24–February 24, 1968; New York, NY, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY, May 14–June 8, 1968.

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. 14, illus. (color) 57.

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," April 10-October 30, 2023.
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