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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-six Contempoary Artists / Acconci V ; Bartlett J ; Holzer J ; Johns J ; Nauman B ; Oldenburg C ; Rivers L ; Ruscha E ; Wiley WT ; Winters T., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11383-11599
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Armstrong curated the exhibition and wrote the catalogue essays along with Sheila McGuire. Jennifer Bartlett's print Day and Night (1978), a work held by the Sackner Archive, is documented and reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Modern Art Museums: The Surprise Is Gone / Russell, John; Johns J; Andre C; Bartlett J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-31027-32488
Scope and Contents

John Russell contends that "the same few artists dominate all the major contemporary collections...[because] we feel comfortable with what we know, and for better and for worse that sensation is available in full measure in museums of modern art...It is, in fact, the buildings, and not what we see in them, that are full of surprises." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985