Artist
Nancy Graves(American, 1939–1995)American, 1939–1995
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Head on Spear
Date1969
Made inUnited States
MediumSteel, wax, marble dust, acrylic, animal skin, and oil paint
Dimensions87 × 21 1/2 × 13 in. (221 × 54.6 × 33 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number90.422
Not on view
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Exhibition History“Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., February 19–April 26, 1987; Fort Worth Art Museum, May 17–July 12, 1987; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 29–October 25, 1987; The Brooklyn Museum, December 10, 1987–February 29, 1988.
"Pop Art: The Object Transformed," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 28–December 29, 1991.
"Modernism in a Century of Change III, From Object to Icon: The Art of Assemblage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 21–August 30, 1998.
"Modern and Contemporary Art: Spotlight on the Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 7–August 27, 2000.
"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.
"Nancy Graves," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, January 29–March 7, 2015.
Catalogue raisonnéE. A. Carmean, Jr., Linda L. Cathcart, Robert Hughes, and Micahel Edward Shapiro, The Sculpture of Nancy Graves (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Fort Worth Art Museum, 1987); cat. 5, p. 51, illustrated.
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