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Cold Mountain 2

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Object Details

Artist
Brice Marden, American, b. Bronxville, New York, 1938–2023
Provenance
The Artist
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, to 3 November 1992
Holenia Purchase Fund, in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1992
Exhibition History
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, New York. "Brice Marden: The 'Cold Mountain' Works," 15 October 1991-31 May 1992. Tour: WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 20 June-3 September; MENIL COLLECTION, Houston, October-November; MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid, 12 January-15 March 1993; STADTISCHES KUNST MUSEUM, Bonn, 30 April-20 June.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996," 4 June-7 September 1997, no. 110, color ill. p. 68.
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART. "Brice Marden, Work of the 1990s: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints," 14 February-25 April 1999, cat. Tour: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 27 May-6 September; MIAMI ART MUSEUM, December-March 2000; CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, Pittsburgh, May-July.
SERPENTINE GALLERY, London. "Brice Marden," 17 November 2000-7 January 2001, cat.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings," 29 October 2006-15 January 2007, cat. Tour: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 17 February-13 May; HAMBURGER BAHNHOF, Berlin, 12 June-7 October.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. pp. 88-89.
Published References
ELDERFIELD, JOHN. Brice Marden: It Reminds Me of Something, and I Don't Know What It Is (New York: Gagosian, 2020), fig. 11, p. 22 (color).
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Holenia Purchase Fund, in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1992
1989-1991
Accession Number
92.22
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
108 1/8 × 144 1/4 in. (274.5 × 366.4 cm)
See more items in
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Contemporary American Abstraction
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Record ID
hmsg_92.22
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py23b70aa22-c640-422f-b519-99357960dd34

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