Silver Grotto/Yellow Grotto
1975
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screenprint on Arches 88 wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 76.1 x 213 cm (29 15/16 x 83 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1985.47.142
Art Historical Context
Bruce Nauman's *Silver Grotto/Yellowrotto* (1975) is a captivating large-scale screenprint on Arches 88 wove paper, measuring an expansive 76.1 x 213 cm (29 15/16 x 83 7/8 in.). Housed in the National Gallery of Art's modern print collection (gift of Benjamin B. Smith this horizontal work evokes the artist's fascination with confined, perceptual spaces—hallmarks of his conceptual practice during the post-minimalist era of the 1970s. Nauman, a trailblazing American artist known for blurring lines between sculpture, performance, and language, used screenprinting to translate immersive, often cl...
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...