Beach Scene

Object Details

Artist

Malcolm Morley, American, b. London, England,1931–2018

Provenance

Kornblee Gallery, New York, to 8 May 1969

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 8 May 1969-6 March 1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York. "Malcolm Morley," 15 February-6 March 1969.

MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, Wisconsin. "Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism," 21 June-10 August 1969, no. 34. Tour: CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Houston, 17 September-19 October; AKRON ART INSTITUTE, 9 November-14 December.

TAMPA MUSEUM, Florida. "Family Time," 4 August-17 October 1984.

MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Les annees Pop," 7 March-18 June 2001.

HAYWARD GALLERY, London. "Malcolm Morley," 15 June-27 August 2001.

Published References

[LONSTABLE, ROSELIND. "Style of the Year: The Inhumanists," New Yorker (December 1968): p. 45.

BECK, HEINZE. Pop-Sammlung Beck (Düsseldorf: Rheinland-Verlag, 1970): fig. 87, no. 157.

Advertisement. Kornblee Gallery, New York. Studio International 179 (May 1970): p. iv, ill.

TAMPA MUSEUM. The Tampa Museum News (July/August 1984): ill.

TAMPA MUSEUM. The Tampa Museum 1984-85 School Exhibition Calendar (July/August 1984): ill.

LOFT, KURT. "Images are big, bright and bold," Tampa Tribune (10 August 1984): ill., p. 13

CRANE, JEANETTE. "Cassettes add dimension to Tampa Museum exhibit,"St. Petersburg Independent (6 September 1984): 2B.

UNSIGNED. "Familiar Scene at the Hirshhorn," Daytona Beach News Journal (13 January 1985): ill.

BRITSCH, RALPH A. and TODD A. BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1985): fig. 16-38, p. 425

DONAHUE, PHIL. The Human Animal (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985): ill. p. 305

WILLIAMS, CECIL, DAVID ARMSTRONG, and CLARK MALCOLM. The Negotiable

Environment (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Facility Management Institute, c. 1985): ill.

SAYRE, HENRY M. The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970 (Chicago and London: University of chicago Press, 1989): fig. 13, p. 42.

WHEELER, DANIEL. Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present (New York: Vendome Press, 1991): ill. 539, p. 278.

SEITZ, WILLIAM C. compiled and edited by MARLA PRICE. Art in the Age of Aquarius: 1955-1970 (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992): colorplate 32, unpaginated.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture

Garden: 150 Works of Art (New York and Washington, DC: Harry N. Abrams and Smithsonian Institution, 1996): 122-23, colorplate.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

(1968)

Accession Number

72.207

Type

Painting

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

110 × 89 7/8 in. (279.4 × 228.2 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

British Contemporary

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_72.207

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

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GUID (Link to Original Record)

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