Farnsworth House

Prints and Drawings

2009

Tadao Ando
Japanese, born 1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Tadao Ando
Title: Farnsworth House
Place: Japan (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.: 2009
Medium: Brush and black ink on white Japanese paper
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed, lower left, black ink: “Farnsworth House, 4/ 17/ 2009, Ando.”
Dimensions: 22.6 × 47 cm (8 15/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.873

Julie V. Iovine, “National Trust’s Glass House Menagerie,” The Architect’s Newspaper (July 7, 2010), n.p. (ill.).

Given by the artist to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Canaan, CT, for resale, 2009; sold to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 16, 2010; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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