SWEET SUITE SUBSTITUTE
conceived 1968, fabricated 1982
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View on museum website →Medium
red, yellow, and blue glass tubing, with clear glass tubing suspension frame
Dimensions
overall: 5 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (13.34 x 75.57 x 12.07 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Firestone, Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gerstin, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hall, Jr., Hon. and Mrs. H. John Heinz, III, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace F. Holladay, Mr. and Mrs. Freeborn G. Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney, Mr.and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rea, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Salant, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Sarnoff, Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II, Mr. and Mrs. Brainard H. Warner, Hon. and Mrs. Sidney R. Yates, and Museum Purchase with funds from the William A. Clark Fund and the Mrs. Ethel B. Garrett Fund in honor of Jane Livingston)
Accession Number
2014.136.291
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...