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Label Text Anthony Caro is best known for abstract metal sculptures, painted in lively colors and removed from any tie to a pedestal-statue relationship. Having achieved a good deal of success with that work, Caro founded the Triangle Workshop in 1982 in New York and invited 30 artists from the U.S., Canada, and Britain to join him in the summer months to experiment with ideas and techniques outside of their everyday practice. For Caro, this took him back to a process he had not employed since his student days at the Royal Academy-drawing and modeling from the nude model. In the Morning is the result of the early years of the workshop and depicts a woman stepping into a bath. Facial features are only subtly suggested in favor of emphasizing the posture, movement, and weight of the body. In titling the sculpture In the Morning, Caro not only evokes the regular ritual of bathing but the intimate, everyday nature of its subject.
Published ReferencesMichael Brenson, "Gallery View; An Abstract Sculptor Returns to the Figure," New York Times, May 18, 1986.

"John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park", Lea Rosson DeLong, ed., Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, 1923, pp. 48-49, detail p. 48
DimensionsOverall: 42 1/2 × 33 × 24 in., 1000 lb. (108 × 83.8 × 61 cm, 453.6 kg.)
Accession Number 2015.9
Classificationssculpture
CopyrightARS
Provenance(Acquavella Galleries, New York); John and Mary Pappajohn [purchased from previous, 1986]; Des Moines Art Center [gift from previous, 2015]

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In the Morning
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Joel Shapiro
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Barry Flanagan
1997
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Deborah Butterfield
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Deborah Butterfield
1989
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Tony Cragg
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