Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings - Box 6, Group 3
Date1980-1982
Artist
Richard Tuttle
(American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, born 1941)
MediumWatercolor on notebook paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 × 10 7/16 in. (20.3 × 26.5 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-69.5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRichard Tuttle is most often aligned with Post-Minimalism-a reaction against Minimalism's anonymous, often industrially produced structures. The artist has continually sought to question the visual tools used to construct an image in Western art through his drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking. Due to this multi-faceted art-making practice, his work tends to deny a strict alliance with one particular movement. Beginning in the 1970s, drawing became a daily exercise for Tuttle and serves as a method from which his other activities evolve. Applied directly on ordinary notebook paper, these delicate watercolor forms buckle their support. It is possible to find references within the subtle imagery, just as one might discover shapes in cloud formations.
