Artist: Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988)
Nationality: Russian-American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Sculpture,Painting.Printmaking
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Biography:
Born in Russia, Louise Nevelson’s family moved to the United States in 1905. In 1920, she moved to New York City and began studying at the Art Students League in 1929. She then traveled to Munich to study under Hans Hofmann. From 1932 to 1933, Nevelson was an assistant to Diego Rivera while he was painting frescoes in New York City. In 1932, Nevelson began creating sculpture, turning to abstract wooden pieces in 1944. Her famous wall pieces were first created at the end of the 1950’s. In the 1960’s, she expanded to incorporate more materials into her sculpture such as aluminum and steel.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Louise Nevelson, Cat, 1965
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Louise Nevelson, Inner View, 1965
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Louise Nevelson, Dawnscape, 1978
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Louise Nevelson, Sunken Cathedral, 1953 - 1955
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© 2001 Estate of Louise Nevelson/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Louise Nevelson,
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Artist: Louise Nevelson Title: Figure Date: 1953 - 1955 Medium: etching and aquatint Dimensions: H.13-11/16
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Louise Nevelson - End of Day Nightscape V 1973 painted wood The McNay Art Museum American
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Louise Nevelson - Black Wall 1964 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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Louise Nevelson - Ancient City 1945-1955 Painted Wood Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Moon Fountain 1957 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Winter Garden 1975 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Full Moon 1980 Cast polyester resin The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Night Landscape 1955 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Hanging Column 1959 painted wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Homage to the World 1966 painted wood The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Sky Cathedral/ Southern Mountain 1959 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Hanging Column (from Dawn's Wedding Feast) 1959 painted wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Lullaby for Jumbo from Façade: In Homage to Edith Sitwell 1966 photo silkscreen and Arkansas Arts Center American
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Louise M. Glazier, Bookplate: Ex Libris, Louise M. Glazier, 1900
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Louise-Antoinette Feuardent
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Louise Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Francisco de Goya - Therese Louise de Sureda c. 1803-1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Bacchante, 1785
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Mondain, Marie Louise, 19th century
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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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Morris Henry Hobbs, Louise, 19th - 20th century
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont, The Falls at Tivoli, 1826
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Edgar Degas, Mme. Ludovic HalÈvy (Louise Breguet HalÈvy), circa 1895
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Charles Dorman Robinson, Lake Louise, 19th - 20th century
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of a Woman (Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque), 1868
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Elisabeth Louise de duchesse de Chabot La Rochefoucauld, Visit to Grandfather, 18th century
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Anonymous, Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise, 19th century
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Anonymous, Marie Josephe Louise de Savoie, 19th century
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John Singer Sargent - Portraits de M.E.P. . . .et de Mlle L.P. (Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron) 1881 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Charles Melchoir Descourtis, Frederique Louise Wilhelmine de Prusse, 18th - 19th century
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Louise-Madeleine Cochin, Seance Ordinare des Etats de Languedoc, 18th - 19th century
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Loiuse de Keroualle
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Charles Edward Wagstaff, Louise de Querouvaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, 19th century
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) 1887 Oil on canvas
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domageville de Serilly, Comtesse de Pange n.d. marble The Art Institute of Chicago French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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Everson Art Museum: Louise Nevelson's Facade: An Homage to Edith Sitwell
Her Façade suite of 1967 is comprised of twelve prints that involve photography, silkscreen, and collage on paper and acetate sheets. The series was created in homage to Dame Edith Sitwell, the ...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Louise Nevelson
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. I don’t think you can touch a thing that cannot be rehabilitated into another life. And once I gave the whole world life in that sense I co...
ASU Art Museum: The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art
The exhibition will include works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Robert Morris and will...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Magician and the Mechanic: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Early Years
The prints on display are drawn from SDMA’s collection with additional works generously lent by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, all of which were donated to their respective museums by San Diego residents Martin and Enid Gleich. Curated...
Ella Sharp Museum: Call for Artists: Opportunity for Public Exposure of Artwork on a Major Corporate Campus & Sale of Existing Work
A Design Review Board will select one piece that will serve as the focal point of Consumers Energy's corporate plaza. Three additional pieces will be selected for installation along the stretch of the Grand River Arts Walk closest to the corpor...
Contemporary Arts Center: Slide Show
Slide Show is a series of 18 installations that range from single-carousel pieces to more cinematic presentations created with multiple projectors. Through the remarkably simple technology of a slide projector and color transparencies, artists fou...
Contemporary Arts Center: Kendell Geers: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Geers employs a fully integrated approach to art and life calling into question his own conflicted ancestry as a white South African. He has exhibited extensively around the world, most notably he has participat...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Sanford Biggers: both/and not either/or
For the CAC, Biggers will produce a new exhibition environment entitled “Both/And Not Either/Or.” The exhibition will focus on a bell choir ceremony in Japan where he explores the connection between contemporary and ancestral.  Biggers’ exhibition...
Contemporary Arts Center: Nothing Compared to This: Ambient, Incidental and New Minimal Tendencies in Current Art
Nothing Compared to This looks at the works of artists who occupy and control space by subtle, often indirect, means. The most salient distinction of today’s art in this vein, however, is that it is often not meant to be contemplated, or even dire...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...

Further Artwork and Information:

Louise Nevelson Online
Louise Nevelson Oral History Interview Conducted by Arnald Glimcher for the Archives of American Art, 1972
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Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Nevelson
Whitney Museum of American Art
Louise Nevelson - Reference Page
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Nevelson - Biography
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Nevelson, Louise on Encyclopedia.com

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