Senga Nengudi
R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"

R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"

© 2014 Senga Nengudi

R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"
R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"
ArtistAmerican, born 1943
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • R.S.V.P. Reverie "Bow Leg"
Date2014
MediumNylon stocking, bent iron rod, and brass bell
Dimensions51 × 17 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (129.5 × 44.5 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.188
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; [Thomas Erben and Levy Gorvy Galleries, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History“Senga Nengudi: Alt,” White Cube Bermondsey, London, November 25, 2014–January 18, 2015.

“Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, 2015–2018.

"Senga Nengudi," Sprüth Magers, Berlin, April 28–September 8, 2018.

"Still I Rise - Feminisms, Gender, Resistance," Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom, October 27, 2018–January 27, 2019.

"Line into Space," Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 15, 2020–November 15, 2022.


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