Black Button, April 3, 1997
Artist
Donald Sultan
American, born 1951
Date1997
MediumEnamel, wax, spackle, tar, tile on Masonite, four panels
Dimensions(each): 48 x 48 x 5 1/4 in. (121.9 x 121.9 x 13.3 cm)
Overall: 96 x 96 x 5 1/4 in. (243.8 x 243.8 x 13.3 cm)
Overall: 96 x 96 x 5 1/4 in. (243.8 x 243.8 x 13.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.58/a-d
On View
Not on viewProvenanceCreated New York, 1997; collection of the artist; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, November 1998; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesDonald Sultan: In the Still Life Tradition (exhibition catalogue) (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999), listed 65, illus. (color) 59.
T. R. [Timothy Riggs], entry for Black Button, April 3, 1997 in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art in the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 22, illus. (color) 73.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Knoedler & Co., Inc., “Donald Sultan: Paintings and Drawings,” April 9–May 3, 1997.
Memphis, TN, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, “Donald Sultan: In the Still Life Tradition,” January 23–April 9, 2000; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, May 6–July 17, 2000; Kansas City, MO, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, September 16–December 3, 2000; Lakeland, FL, Polk Museum of Art, March 31–June 3, 2001; Scottsdale, AZ, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, June 29–September 9, 2001, listed 65, illus. (color) 59.
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. 22, illus. (color) 73.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
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