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Label Text Since the 1960s, Phyllida Barlow has produced a unique and dynamic body of work focused on the investigation into materiality, form, and process in the wake of the minimalist and post-minimalist art movement of the 60s and 70s. Counter to reductive, hard-edged, and industrially-manufactured works, Barlow works in a material expansiveness that creates massive organic shapes and accumulations that relate directly to the urban environment. The humorous sadmonumentblack triggers associations with Constantin Brancusi's Endless Column, while referencing the "historic monument," which in this case ironically commemorates neither a powerful individual nor an important historic event. Source: News, Jan Fen Mar 2014
DimensionsOverall: 275 9/16 × 35 × 35 in., 1027 lb. (700 × 88.9 × 88.9 cm, 465.8 kg.)
Overall (.a bottom): 108 × 31 × 32 in., 307 lb. (274.3 × 78.7 × 81.3 cm, 139.3 kg.)
Overall (.b middle): 118 × 31 × 32 in., 337 lb. (299.7 × 78.7 × 81.3 cm, 152.9 kg.)
Overall (.c top): 60 1/2 × 42 × 44 in., 151 lb. (153.7 × 106.7 × 111.8 cm, 68.5 kg.)
Accession Number 2013.38.a-.c
Classificationssculpture
untitled: sadmonumentblack
Photo Credit: Paul Crosby
Photo Credit: Paul Crosby
Photo Credit: Paul Crosby
Phyllida Barlow
2012
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
John Chamberlain
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Phyllida Barlow
Paupers Press
2013
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Red Grooms
1991-1992
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bruce Nauman
1990
#1 Aerial view of Greenwood Pond: Double Site
Photographed by: Farshid Assassi (October 1996)
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Mary Miss
1989-1996
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Joel Shapiro
1987
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
b. Robert Moore
2023
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tony Feher
2012
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Paul Thek
1964