The Third Decade

Contemporary Art

1968

Roscoe Mitchell
American, born 1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Roscoe Mitchell
Title: The Third Decade
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.: 1968
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 82 × 100.4 cm (32 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation
Reference Number: 2023.2931
Copyright: © 1968 Roscoe Mitchell

Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete, The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, exh. cat. (Chicago:Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015), 158-159 (color ill), 256, as The Third Decade, 1970.
Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Third Decade, LP, (Munich: ECM Records, 1985), album cover (color ill.).
Catie Kato, ed., Roscoe Mitchell, Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022, exh. cat. (Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2023), 36, 37 (color ill.), 135 (color ill.).

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Freedom Principal: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, July 11-Nov. 22, 2015, no cat. no.; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 14, 2016-Mar. 19, 2017, as The Third Decade, 1970.
Bergen, NO, Kunsthall Bergen, File Under Freedom, Feb. 5–Mar. 27, 2022, no cat.
Chicago, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Roscoe Mitchell, Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022, Jan. 20-Mar. 11, 2023, no cat. no.

: The artist, sold through Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, to the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, New York, June 2023; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 12, 2023.

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