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Second Letter (Zen Spring)

A work made of oil on linen.
© 2018 Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of oil on linen.

Date:

2006/09

Artist:

Brice Marden
American, 1938-2023

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Brice Marden

Title

Second Letter (Zen Spring)

Place

United States (Object made in)

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.

2006–2009

Medium

Oil on linen

Dimensions

244 × 366 cm (96 × 144 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior bequests of Maxine Kunstadter and Solomon B. Smith; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin and Richard Veit; Mary and Leigh Block Fund for Acquisitions; through prior gifts of Society for Contemporary Art and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith; through prior bequest of Sigmund E. Edelstone; through prior gifts of Mr. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Florene May Schoenborn, and Mr. and Mrs. Erne R. Frueh; Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund; through prior gifts of Arnold H. Maremont, an anonymous donor, and Mr. and Mrs. R. Howard Goldsmith; Goodman Fund; through prior gift of Ottawa Silica Company, courtesy of Edmund B. Thornton, Chairman of the Board; Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Leval, Mary and Leigh Block, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, James Brown IV, Robert A. Lewis and Keith Wellin, Marlborough Gallery in honor of John Maxon, and Edgar B. Miller; Wirt D. Walker Fund; through prior gifts of Miss Darthea Speyer, Sylvia Belgrade in memory of Norman Belgrade, and Lotta and Sheldon Ackerman; through prior purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan Frumkin; Samuel A. Marx Endowment; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Freehling, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Robert A. Lewis in memory of Mrs. Polly Levey, Suzanne Elkins and Jim Rose; through prior bequest of Katherine Kuh; through prior purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith; through prior bequest of Florence Heller; through prior gifts of Mr. Emerson Crocker, Mrs. Samuel W. Koffler, Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, Louise Crane Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. William J. Tannenbaum, Vernon and Marcia Wagner, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, from the Child Hasam Fund Total, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr; Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer; Pauline Palmer Purchase Prize Fund; through prior gifts of Robert Orton, Jr., James Brown IV in memory of Harold H. Swift, and Mr. John L. Strauss; Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith, Solomon B. Smith Charitable Trust, Third Unitarian Church of Chicago, Bruce J. McCowan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Feigen, Mr. and Mrs. Ainsley K. Salz, Dr. and Mrs. Irving Forman, Mr. J. Patrick Lannan, and Laura van Pappelendam

Reference Number

2012.31

Copyright

© 2018 Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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