Demons and Angels

Prints and Drawings

1962

Robert Smithson
American, 1938–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Robert Smithson
Title: Demons and Angels
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.: 1962
Medium: Pen and black ink on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, in pen and black ink: “R Smithson / 62”
Dimensions: sight: 59.5 × 44.4 cm (23 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Reference Number: 2024.121

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Perceptions of the Spirit in 20th Century American Art, Sept. 1977–June 1978, cat. 127.

Richard Castellane Gallery, New York [according to Christie’s 1990]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 6, 1990, lot 43, to JP Morgan Chase & Co., Chicago [invoice in donor file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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