Archaeological Find: Sacrifice to Truro
Artist
Rafael Montañez Ortiz
(American, born 1934)
CultureAmerican
Date1965
MediumUpholstered chair, resin on wood
Dimensions59 × 41 1/2 × 13 5/8 in. (149.9 × 105.4 × 34.6 cm)
Overall, Support (backing board for storage): 60 × 44 1/2 × 3/4 in. (152.4 × 113 × 1.9 cm)
Overall, Support (backing board for storage): 60 × 44 1/2 × 3/4 in. (152.4 × 113 × 1.9 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated on reverse.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2664
Collections
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a sculpture/construction: it is a complex construction which has a plywood backing with wood, burlap, paper, packing straw, upholstery springs and other objects projecting from the plywood.Label TextRafael Montañez Ortiz American (born 1934) Archaeological Find: Sacrifice to Truro, 1965 Mixed media, 59 × 41 1/2 × 10 in. (149.9 × 105.4 × 25.4 cm) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2664 ProvenanceArtist to Chrysler Art Museum (Provincetown, MA) purchase, 1965; transfer to Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA 1971.Exhibition History"International Moderns from the Permanent Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Apr 24-June 29, 1980. "Rafael Montanez Ortiz: Years of the Warrior, Years of the Psyche 1960-1988," El Museo de Barrio, New York, NY, March 22 - July 5, 1988. “Home – So Different, So Appealing,” LACMA, June 11 – October 15, 2017; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 19, 2017 – January 21, 2018. “Rafael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Survey,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, April 13 - September 11, 2022; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, October 15, 2022 - April 2, 2023.Published References"Chrysler Museum Buys Ortiz Work," _The Advocate_, September 16, 1965. Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramirez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, _Home-- So Different, So Appealing_, (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano STudes Research Center Press, 2017), pg. 145, plate 10.
ca. 1840
