Yellow Backdrop

Contemporary Art

1986

Richard Tuttle
American, born 1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Richard Tuttle
Title: Yellow Backdrop
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.: 1986
Medium: Plastic, paint, and foamcore
Dimensions: 33.5 × 52.1 × 7.9 cm (13 1/4 × 20 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Donna and Howard Stone
Reference Number: 2023.3102

Michael Kimmelman, “At the Met With Richard Tuttle: Influence Cast In Stone,” The New York Times, May 14, 1999, B29.
Michael Auping, Agnes Martin/Richard Tuttle, exh. cat. (Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1998), 68, 69, cat. 12 (color ill.), 79.
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), 157 (ill.).

Fort Worth, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Agnes Martin/Richard Tuttle, Apr. 26–Aug. 2, 1998, cat. 12; Santa Fe, NM, SITE Santa Fe, Aug. 15–Oct. 12, 1998.
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Richard Tuttle: Community, Apr. 16–June 18, 1999, not in cat.

The artist; sold through Sperone Westwater, New York, to Donna and Howard Stone, Chicago, Feb. 20, 1999 [invoice in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 2023.

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