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Showing posts with label Donald Judd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Judd. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Donald Judd

Donald Judd (1928-1994) was an American artist and designer known for his minimalist work, although he eschewed that term. After serving in the U. S. Army in Korea, he attended The College of William and Mary, as well as the Art Students League and Columbia University, where he received a degree in philosophy in 1953.

He worked for ARTnews, Arts Magazine and Art International as an art critic for a decade, leaving as part of his legacy a number of theoretical writings on art and exhibition practices.

In the 1960s, Judd began to exhibit regularly in New York, as well as across the United States, Europe and Japan. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in Saitama, Japan, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Tate Modern in London, among others.

He received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Swedish Institute, and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He moved to Marfa, Texas, in the 1970s, where he founded the Chinati Foundation on the site of the former Fort D.A. Russell. According to the Foundation's mission statement and history, the specific intention of Chinati is to preserve and present to the public permanent large-scale installations by a limited number of artists.

From juddfoundation.org and chinati.org



Untitled woodblock print
minimalissimo.com

Untitled woodcut and oil on paper
tate.org.uk

Untitled works in milled aluminum at the Chinati
chinati.org

Bookshelf #34
art-zoo.com

Standing writing desk
core77.com

Stools
die-neue-sammlung.de

Desk set #33
pacegallery.com

Corner bench
die-neue-sammlung.de

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

101 Spring Street, New York

While researching a post on Donald Judd, I ran across an interesting article on the Design Observer site about the residence and studio he maintained in New York City, even after he had moved permanently to Marfa, Texas.

The article included an essay written by Judd in 1989 about the history of the building designed in 1870 by Nicholas Whyte. Not only is the essay a fascinating read, but the photographs by Elizabeth Felicalla are beautiful.

Images from designobserver.com


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