Nancy Graves
Five Legs

Five Legs

© Nancy Graves Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Five Legs
Five Legs
ArtistAmerican, 1939–1995
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Five Legs
Date1981
Made inUnited States
MediumBronze
Dimensions70 × 52 × 83 in. (177.8 × 132.1 × 210.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2014.3.A-.E
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceBalene and Sanford McCormick, Houston, commissioned from the artist through Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, and M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1981;
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2014, 2014.3.A-.E
Exhibition History"On Common Ground," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–January 14, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
under each toe: NG’81, #1; NG’81, #2; NG’81, #3; NG’81, #4; NG’81, #5

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