Second Floor Gallery

Louise Nevelson

Symphony of Ambient Forms

Royal Winds I, 1960

gold painted wood construction

83 x 46 x 9 1/2 inches

Dawn's Landscape XXXVIII, 1975

painted wood

43 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

Ancient Secrets III (Part 2), 1964

painted wood and metal frame

33 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches

Royal Tide III, 1961
painted wood
93 1/4 x 68 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches

Untitled, 1979
painted wood and mirror elements
78 x 65 x 17 inches

Untitled, 1957

painted wood and mixed media construction

40 x 30 inches

Untitled, 1958

paper doily, silver foil, paint, paper and cardboard on mat board mounted to 1/4 in. plywood

40 x 32 inches

Untitled, 1959

torn lithograph on paper, wood and wood veneer on mat board mounted to 1/4 in. plywood

46 x 36 inches

Untitled, 1979
gilded wood form, abrasive disk on cardboard, etching on paper, and mat board mounted on plywood
32 x 20 inches

Untitled, 1983
scrap maple veneer, steel, paper, and mat board mounted on plywood
30 x 20 inches

Symphony of Ambient Forms celebrates Nevelson’s dexterity across her chosen mediums of

assemblage and collage, highlighting her pioneering use of materials and the breadth of complex

forms she so deftly wove into her sculptures. Large-scale stacked box constructions, wall reliefs and

plywood-backed collages (dating from 1958 through the early 1980s) embody the major threads of

Nevelson’s artistic output and continue an ongoing dialogue of intimacy and monumentality in

her work—reflected by the whimsical use of raw and ‘ready-made’ materials in her collages and the

remarkable transformations of ambient forms in her wood sculptures.

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