Robert Lobe
Slow Digestion

Slow Digestion
Slow Digestion
Slow Digestion
ArtistAmerican, born 1945
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Slow Digestion
Date1983
PlaceUnited States
MediumAnodized hammered aluminum
Dimensions59 × 88 × 26 in. (149.9 × 223.5 × 66 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Edward R. Broida
Object number2007.611
Not on view

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Provenance[Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles]; Edward R. Broida, Los Angeles, April 15, 1985–2007; bequeathed to MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History"Robert Lobe: Sculpture / Louisa Chase: Paintings," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April 6–May 11, 1985.

"Selections from the Broida Collection: 1993," Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, January 15–February 5, 1993.

"Selections from the Edward R. Broida Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 13–October 15, 2005

"Selections from the Edward R. Broida Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 31–September 3, 2007.

"Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 10–September 25, 2011.

"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 3–May 5, 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Etched on the proper left edge: "Slow Digestion / (signature) '83"
Etched on the proper left edge: "Bob Lobe '83"

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