Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.

Construction #7

Artist Sidney Gordin (American, 1918 - 1996)

CultureAmerican

Date1954

MediumPainted steel

Dimensions34 1/2 x 26 x 25 in. (87.6 x 66 x 63.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2011.8

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 223

Label TextSidney Gordin American, 1918–1996 Construction #7, 1954 Painted steel Museum purchase 2011.8 ProvenanceDr. Peter B. Fischer, California; David Klein Gallery, Michigan; Private Collection, Michigan; Conner Rosenkranz gallery, New York; purchased by the Chrysler Museum of ArtExhibition History"Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction: Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer." Laguna Art Museum, CA. January 10 - March 19, 1998. "Great Planes: Planar Surfaces in American Cubism and Abstraction." Richard York Gallery, New York. November - December 21, 2002. "Making and Meaning: Selections from the Chrysler Museum of Art Collection," Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, June 1 - August 11, 2013.Published ReferencesBauer, John I.H. "Sidney Gordin." Art in America, no. 1 (1954), pp. 20, 21, 70. Armstrong, Tom. "200 Years of American Sculpture." Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. p. 50, illus. of another work; p.274. Larsen, Susan C. "Sidney Gordin." Arts Magazine, (November 1977). p. 18. Marter, Joan. "Constructivism in America: The 1930's." Arts Magazine (June 1982). pp. 73-80. Stavitsky, Dr. Gail. "Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction: Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter. B. Fischer." Laguna Art Museum, 1998, illus. p. 22