Ancient Secrets
1964
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View on museum website →Medium
painted wood
Dimensions
overall without base: 179.39 × 158.75 × 38.1 cm (70 5/8 × 62 1/2 × 15 in.) overall with base: 189.55 × 172.72 × 68.58 cm (74 5/8 × 68 × 27 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran)
Accession Number
2015.19.3804
About the Artist
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was a Ukrainian-born American sculptor who became one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century American art, renowned for her monumental wooden wall sculptures. Born Leah Berliawsky in Pereiaslav, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she emigrated with her family to Rockland, Maine, in 1905 and moved to New York City in 1920, where she studied at the Art Students Lea...