one of May 27, 1963

1963

Dan Flavin
American, 1933–1996

Status: On View, Gallery 297
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Dan Flavin
Title: one of May 27, 1963
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1963
Medium: Red fluorescent and incandescent light on acrylic and Masonite and pine
Dimensions: 20 × 122 × 16.5 cm (8 × 48 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Donna and Howard Stone
Reference Number: 2023.3090

Max Kozloff, “The Further Adventures of American Sculpture,” Arts Magazine, 39, no. 5 (Feb. 1965): 26 (ill.), as Construction with Red Florescent and Incandescent Bulbs.
Mel Bochner, “Less Is Less (for Dan Flavin),” Art and Artists, 1 no. 9 (Dec. 1966): 27 (ill.), as Untitled, 1964.
Larry Aldrich, Selections From the Collection of Hanford Yang, exh. cat. (Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1968), cat. 22 as Red Fluorescent With Ten Red Bulbs.
Emily Rauh, drawings and diagrams 1963–1972 by Dan Flavin, exh. cat. (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1973), 12, 14.
Michael Govan, Tiffany Bell, Brydon Smith, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2004), 33, 34, 36, fig.22 (color ill.), 220, cat. 23 (color ill.).
James Rondeau and Judith Russi Kirshner, Contemporary collecting: the Donna and Howard Stone collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 12, 13, fig. 1 (color ill.), 22, 48–49 (color ill.), 140 (ill.).

New York, Green Gallery, New Work (Contemporary American Group Show), Oct. 24–Nov. 14, no cat.
Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections From the Collection of Hanford Yang, Sept. 29–Dec. 22, 1968, cat. 22 as Red Fluorescent With Ten Red Bulbs.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Oct. 3, 2004–Jan. 9, 2005, cat. 23; Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Feb. 27–June 5, 2005 (Preview days Feb. 25-26); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 2–Oct. 30, 2005 (Members Opening July 1st); London, Hayward Gallery, Jan. 19–Apr. 2, 2006; Paris, June 9–Oct. 8, 2006; Munich, Nov. 23, 2006–Mar. 4, 2007 (extended to Apr. 9); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 13–Aug. 12, 2007 (Chicago, London, Paris, Munich, Los Angeles only).
Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, June 25–Sept. 19, 2010, no cat.no.

The artist. Hanford Yang, New York. Marco Buitoni by 1971 [Rauh 1973]. Sold through the John Weber Gallery, New York, to Donna and Howard Stone, Chicago, May 30, 1995 [invoice in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 2023.

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